Bilingual World in 20 Years

Assignment #1: The Bilingual World In 20 Years

     Imagine you are in a classroom 20 years in the future. In that futuristic classroom describe how language acquisition might take place. What kind of technology might be used? Will there be more or less emphasis on learning minority and majority languages? What motivations might the students have in the futuristic classroom? For what purposes are languages being learned? What forms of assessment are being used?

On year 2,038 one of the major improvements will be technology and economy. After scientists discover that mothers can communicate with their children before they born, children will acquire their first language before they will be born. Bilingualism will start to disappear in a very slow process because people will think that the priority will be to learn the language of the most powerful country which will become the first language in the whole world.

Because of technology our interaction will be limited to a solar device. This will make that people in the future may use devices for longer without worries about communication interruption. . A developed communication system will make people improve common language proficiency and many countries or all of them will make laws to empower one language.

Because of developed technology and economical interaction there will be more emphasis on learning majority language. In these days we can see how many people learn English around the world. Many countries have in their schools’ curriculum English as a language for learning. There are no countries in the world that they do not have commercial interaction with United State of America. Thus, students will be motivated to improve the language more used around the world. Classrooms will be designed for unifying our communication codes, and classes will be in one language. In many cases the purpose what language being learned will be economics.

The assessments will be advanced. These will not have major difference with a regular test, because parents will provide to their children a second language lessons by internet or another way of communication. The advanced world is growing up and each day globalization is taken place. In 20 years the world will become more consolidated and people around the world will create ways to be one.