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Language teachers, schools, books, TV series, computer programs... I wondered how and to what extent the English industry has brought benifit to English speaking countries.
  

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[nq:1]Language teachers, schools, books, TV series, computer programs... [/nq] The EFL Teaching industry is now a major earner for the UK, and there's some benefits for exporters from English speaking-countries - with English the lingua franca for international business, they have more native-speaker staff to go round. DC

  • [nq:1]Language teachers, schools, books, TV series, computer programs...
  • [/nq] The EFL Teaching industry is now a major earner for the UK, and there's some benefits for exporters from English speaking-countries - with English the lingua franca for international business, they have more native-speaker staff to go round.
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[nq:1]Language teachers, schools, books, TV series, computer programs... I wondered how and to what extent the English industry has brought benifit to English speaking countries.[/nq]
The EFL Teaching industry is now a major earner for the UK, and there's some benefits for exporters from English speaking-countries - with English the lingua franca for international business, they have more nat
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[nq:1]Language teachers, schools, books, TV series, computer programs... I wondered how and to what extent the English industry has brought benifit to English speaking countries.[/nq]
A useful resource which looks at how the status of English as a Global Language effects English-speaking countries, (along with other issues) is 'The Future of English' by David Graddol, available as a .pdf at
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[nq:1]Language teachers, schools, books, TV series, computer programs... I wondered how and to what extent the English industry has brought benifit to English speaking countries.[/nq]
ESL is a huge business. When I was teaching in Mexico we had a presentation by a sales rep from a firm in Miami which owned 90 ESL schools in Latin America, sold all sorts of instructional texts, workbooks, audio

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