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According to Leonard, human will overcome global challenges, and shaped of the 'ethnosphere'. The minority language is vulnerable, therefor half of the world's languages will no longer be spoken by the end of century. With the globalization development, the young generation has bigger generation gap with the old generation. some languages are not suited to technologies and consumerism need as few languages as possible. without diversity of the language, the world would be dull.

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According to Vaish(2007),the acritical made some descriptive and theory to explore the globalization of language in Singapore. Vasich compared patterns of language use in the domain of media for Singaporean children, in these results there is an indication that there might be loss of mother tongues. Although English is the main language in the world, in Singapore children use their mother language through the internet and make the language co-exist with English.

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According to eonard’ article ,globalisation has a positive impact .To operate efficiently ,The same language can make the message consistent,so the cost can be minimised. On the opposite,globalisation has a negative impact on language.Firstly,The local language speaker is reduced.secondly,Adults and children are glued to television screens,so they can not communicate with each other.

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Leonard observes some people who speak minority languages-----Inuit. From this investigation, he found that only little people speak mother language and many minority languages die because of the globalization. He argued that with the development of consumerism and technology,  the crisis of decreasing minority language is more serious. Finally, he emphasizes the importance of language and hopes people to protect the diversity of language.

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According to Leonard, centuries-old cultures and traditions are facing a danger to be destroyed by globalization and consumerism. He uses Eskimo as an example. In Eskimo, the number of people who can speak lnuit are becoming less and less, and many traditional habits are disappear. Consumption is full of their lives. Leonard is worried about this situation. Because he thinks when we lose a language, we will lose a voice of the world.

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According to Vaish(2007), cultural globalization is a polycentric process, it can also result in the consumption of non-English languages. Although children in Singaporean are susceptible to the global English and Euro-American popular culture, some children of Singaporean are still avid consumers of their own languages. It is clear therefore that the spread of global English is not xxx.

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According to Vaish’s research on patterns of language use in the domain of media for different ethnic groups of children in Singapore, most children despite their ethnic groups use English in their daily life (2007). Although Malay is more dominant than English in Singapore, Malay children prefer to use English while they reading a book, surfing the Internet and listening to music. However, the Chinese and Indian children use their mother tongues more often than Malay children and still can connect to their local cultures with it.

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According to Vaish(2007), the effects of globalization on patterns of language use in Media consumption in Singapore is rather than cultural imperialism. The use of languages in the media also shows the consumption of non-English languages and cultures. This essay also has made some descriptive and theoretical claims to argue that Euro-American culture is not the only story of cultural globalization. It is therefore clear that mother tongues and their related cultures also co-exist under the globalization.

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According to Leonard, globalization has an adverse impact on the minority languages in Eskimo community. There are fewer people using Inuit native language and their entertainment and communication ways have been changed. Maybe the Internet could provide a chance for minority language because of the lower cost. Every language is a part of every culture, so we should protect minority languages to flourish our cultures.

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Here is the document with the 'correct example' sentences for you to check

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Please post your summaries onto the noticeboard

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Please post your summaries onto the noticeboard

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Download the list of academic words here - these are useful words for you to study.

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http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax;jsessionid=5348C58D5434EC993AD61922EC49F341?a=fp&sa=collAbout&c=collocations&if=flax

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Do you want to check you really understand noun phrases? you can read more and practice identifying them  through the web link below

http://aeo.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/Files/NounPhrases/Noun%20Phrases.html