IT AND ENGLISH
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Before I start my simple speech, for the first time, thanks for god who gives a good condition, so that I can attend here to deliver my simple speech in front of all of you… and I also thanks to my teacher who support me.
For jacking up the use of English and also for bringing our nation one step ahead, how about making English as our second language?
Interested in studying for language can help widen our thinking concepts. In IT area, this case is more apparent because English is used as the escort language by Operating System, Websites, Gadgets and Hardware.
Nowadays with presence of internet, the geographical nearness is being not relevance
In fact, the majority of Indonesian people is bilingual already. Indonesian isn’t the greatest quantity for studied as the foreign language but the traditional is the greatest one. Native pronouncers of Indonesian are only about 20 millions from all. It’s a pity, although bilingual but the studied language isn’t precise in the meaning of giving the maximal benefit.
But in the IT area, English constitutes and possibility will be constantly as the most dominant language. First, mandarin as the rival possesses several obstacles to replacing English: too difficult/takes long times for many persons and harder assimilating the other languages because the letters of alphabet system isn’t phonetics. So that the computers documentations in China/Taiwan are written by English. If not, programmers will be confused with so many technical terms. The next economy force behind China is India, they are already using English. That makes them become one of many options in IT rivalry.
In IT industry, with presence of internet, the geographical nearness is being not relevance. Contacting with far nations isn’t harder than with the near country. Lingua franca is more useful compared with one cluster language. In the present days, there aren’t choices except English. Researches indicating: more than 50% WebPages is written in English. And maybe 99% of programming languages are using English as the basis.
Perhaps the way to making up one step forward is turning this policy around. If we have a role as the government, I think I will submit English as our second language. Basic education obligatory including English to the curriculum. All of the documents and formal communication will be written in English and Indonesian. Signpost also must be written in 2 languages too. But when I imagine about it, I’m shudder, a lot of alterations possibility will be made as field and corruption opportunity.
The core of my speech is “English is so useful in this globalization era and on IT industry”.
Well ladies and gentlemen, I think it’s enough for my simple speech and thanks for paying attention on me ..
Good morning Ladies and gentlemen !!!
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