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The Imperial Tongue: English as the Dominating Academic Language
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International Educator
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September 1, 2008
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THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE dominates science, scholarship, and instruction as never before, While it is unlikely that English will achieve the status that Latin had as the sole language of teaching and scholarship at the thirteenth century universities in Europe, the Latin analogy gas some relevance today. Back then, Latin not only permitted the internationalization of universities but allowed the Roman Catholic Church to dominate intellectual and academic life. It was only the Protestant Reformation led by Martin Luther, combined with a growing sense of national identity, that challenged and then displaced Latin with national languages. As late as the 1930s, German was a widely used ...
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