This book is about the English language in the 21st century: about who will speak it and for what purposes. It is a practical brie ng document, written for educationists, politicians, managers indeed any decision maker or planning team with a professional interest in the development of English worldwide. The Future of English? takes stock of the present, apparently unassailable, position of English in the world and asks whether we can expect its status to remain unchanged during the coming decades of unprecedented social and economic global change.
