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The Most Chameleon of Languages

Perceptions of English Abroad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Alan Maley
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Non-native users of English now outnumber the home-grown variety. How has this come about and what are its possible consequences? Why are millions of people now learning English as their ‘other tongue’? And what does it mean in the Eighties to be a foreign user of the English language?

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English Today , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 30 - 33
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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