Korean beats French

Ingrid Piller

Korean beats French

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Abstract

If you could choose to learn a foreign language, which one would it be? And why? Such choices are usually constrained by what is on offer. However, someone must choose the offerings – e.g., language policy makers around the world have for the past couple of decades decided that English is a must-have first foreign language for anyone and everyone who doesn’t speak it as a first language. Rarely do language students get an actual say in institutional offerings and a current polling initiative by the Student Council at Zayed University is therefore the more exciting. This internal poll has been running for a couple of days and I can’t take my eyes of it: for a sociolinguist this is like Melbourne Cup Day without the hats!

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 14 Dec 2009

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200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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Korean beats French

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