Varieties of English: Effects on Teaching English

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Since English is considered to be the most important tool for communication globally, the understanding of its varieties also change by reversals necessary.To give clear view of the use of English in divers(prenominal) countries, Kachru (1992) presents the three concentric circles of language. The inner circle represents the places where English is utilise as first or native language much(prenominal) as Britain, the USA, Australia etc. harmonise to Crystal (2006), there are cd trillion native spill the beansers of English language. The outer circle entangles the places, such as India, Nigeria, the Philippines, capital of Singapore etc, where English is used as an official language or second language. Crystal (2006) states that there are 400 million speak English as a second language. The Expanding circle represents the countries where English plays no special status still widely used as a lingua franca or medium of international communication and studied as a foreign language, for example, Japan, Egypt, Mexico, Indonesia etc. There are around 600-700 million people use English as a foreign language around the world (Crystal, 2006). These circles clearly show the high status of English language as it expe riences an official or second language in more than 100 countries.There are about 2 jillion people, one third of the world population speak English all over the world. Varieties of world English include Ameri freighter English. British English, Singapore English (Singalish), Indian English, Australian English, Philippine English, Scottish English, Spanglish, Taglish etc. The human beings of different varieties of English around world is because of the spread of English. The spread of English is the result of a number of historical and pragmatic constituents (McCrum, 2010). The first factor is the expansion and the influence of British colonization to many parts of the world in the nineteenth century. The second factor is the spacious influence of join States in world economy and host and Harmer (2013) states that these influences make English to become one of the main language of international businesses. Thirdly, according to Crystal (2003), American technology takes a leadi ng role in the world technology. Besides, the great deal of advertising, broadcasting, popular music and literature around the world use English to express the ideas around the world. Moreover, in education, the most of the academic preaching use English language and it can be one of the main reasons why many countries use English as the foreign language or medium of instruction in schools. Therefore, it is obvious that English becomes a global language as it is the most commonly used in many important fields such as business, education, media, science and technology.According to Greenbaum and Quirk (1991), there are five reasons why varieties of English has evolved regional, brotherly group, field of discourse, medium and attitudes. The variation occurs in the distinctive features of English which include spelling, pronunciation, lexis, grammar and preferred usages. The varieties of English, as shown in the verbal structures, which express the variations in the aspects are common ly seen in all the varieties around the world. Pronunciation and morphology can be classified in accordance with the frequency of variation seen in the non- normal forms of the English language. The variation in vocabulary is restricted to two types. First, the comportment of archaic words and second, the presence of flora and fauna words. The phonological, morphological and syntactic features are the three main features which show the variations in the English language as compared to be the normal form of the language.Out of all the countries around the world, Britain and America are the two main countries that have used a standard form of English. In Britain, the standard form is called as original pronunciation (RP), and in America, the standard form is called by unhomogeneous names, but most common being- universal American and network American. Maximum people in America, use General American musical composition speaking. Whereas, a really few people in Britain, use Rece ived Pronunciation while speaking. Other than these two standard forms of English are considered to be the varieties of English. The varieties of English (Fairclough,2014) spoken out of Britain and America are called to be overseas or extraterritorial varieties.English is considered to be an official and often native language. English fulfills the function of a lingua franca (ELF). Many countries, like Nigeria, have used English as a lingua franca (which means a general means of communication). More attention shall be given to the varieties in ELT from various perspectives like grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary (Pennycook.2014). The variations are least at the level of grammar. Thus, are not to be addressed in the English language schoolroom in detail. But if we talk about pronunciation, the case is totally different. It requires to be studied in detail.The role of varieties of English in ELT to some terminus also depends on the acquireer. It has been seen that the prospect ive teachers of ELT are not prepared right on for coping up with the variety-related problems that arise in the classroom. Due to lack of comme il faut raising, teachers hesitate to include varieties of English in ELT as they consider it a complex thing (Llurda, 2016). Also, varieties are not considered important by teachers as they usually are not important in exams.The challenges of variation of English language in ELT context can be overcome by strengthening the regional and social varieties in the areas where English is used traditionally as the traditional language by the majority of the population, by ontogenesis the self-confidence of the native and non-native users of English to use the regional varieties in the English language without sticking to the norms of using the traditional language as standard as exposing students to as many varieties of English as possible would do more to ensure intelligibility than trying to impose a single standard on everyone (DSouza, 1999 ) and by adopting ELF in the ELT, due to globalization as English learners will most likely to communicate in English with other non-native ELF speakers in ELF interactions. Although it is impossible and unnecessary to teach all varieties of English in the classroom, students should be given proper training to be able to understand the speakers from different geographical and social differences which postulate to include more exposure to varieties and variety-related training in ELT to create awareness, for example, learn listening skill with the recordings of different speakers with different accents.To conclude, because of the spread of English in British colonization and the influence of USA in economic and military and a wide use of English language in different areas to share the ideas with the world such as media, technology, science and education can make English to become global language. As English become global language, there are many users of English around the world a nd this lead to different varieties of English. The existence of varieties of English influence in statement English as the role of varieties in the ELT classroom has gained major importance and thus, can be said to be the most promising focal point to provide users of English an education which makes them highly competent in call of communication globally.