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- Title: Reflections on EFL Proficiency Requirements in the Business Context: Towards Bilingualism in Professional Education in Finland.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 317 KB
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1. Introduction Lingua francas, common languages, can be assumed to have existed since the times humans started to communicate through speaking 40 000 years ago. (1) Their development seems to fluctuate with economic power; this explains the role of Latin in the Roman empire and the existence of a Latin-based lingua franca in the Mediterranean region towards the 15th century. (2) Similarly, the status of English in the world today can at least partly be explained through the dynamism of the American economy. Maybe in the future, the business community will press to learn Mandarin Chinese; many business people already are.
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