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标题：English As A Trend Language In Pakistan: A Study Of Practices Of The Literate
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作者：Saqib Javed ; Tariq Usman ; Ms. Ambreen Gul 等
期刊名称：Webology
印刷版ISSN：1735-188X
出版年度：2022
卷号：19
期号：1
页码：7829-7854
语种：English
出版社：University of Tehran
摘要：The emergence of globalization and global trends has given new shape to the trending aspects of life. English, being the Global and Foreign Language, is changing its status towards “adoption as culture (trend)”. Being the language of advancements and higher education, its usage has been spread more than the past few decades. Being multilingual society, Pakistani educated people take English as the language of “necessity of time, advancement, progressivism, and personality development. The present study looks deeper into the phenomenon of English language usage in Pakistani society. The study is quantitative in its nature and partially qualitative, conducted through a WhatsApp contacts survey from all over the country. A sample of 67 people was taken as convenient sampling. The obtained data were analyzed through MS Excel 2016 and SPSS version 23 to understand the level of English language usability as the trend and for the sake of convenience. The results revealed that there were high intentions of people towards English language usage. Comparatively, female educated people were found more concerned in using complete sentences while communication, than the males while males used code-mixing mostly. The results also describe that English language is adopted as the trend (culture) which denotes that educated people keep this language as the language of advancement in life and personality. The study has recommended certain type of aspects related to the English language challenges and possible opportunities in the sense of obliging an English language learned person.
关键词：English as a Global Language;English as a Trend Language;English in Higher Studies;Code Mixing and Code Switching