Review Questions II
1.  Using examples from India, the Philippines, and East and South Africa, explain how Moag's Life Cycle works for imported English.

2.  What is meant by bilingualism and diglossia? Why is the concept of domains important? Using examples from India, the Philippines, and East and South Africa, explain why the concepts are important in determining the stability of English or other languages in a society.

3.  Based on Sridhar's study of the use of English requests in India and Chick's look at banker English in South Africa, discuss how using English as an International Language can cause misunderstandings.

4.  Based on Gonzalez's study of English in the Philippine print media, what tend to be the characteristics of English in an ESL country that differentiate it from English in an ENL country?

5. What is Taglish? What does Taglish reveal about the issue of when English ceases to be English? Can an ESL country be endonormative with new vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar rules coming from a local substratum and still belong to World English? Who decides?

6.  Is English a killer language?  Using examples from India, the Philippines, East and South Africa, identify criteria that may or may not make this so. What roles do the media and the government play? What roles do the elite and the masses play in the issue?

7.  Compare the viability of English in Kenya and Tanzania, two neighboring countries in East Africa.

8.  How does the situation for English in South Africa differ from East Africa and other countries in southern Africa that have English as the official language?  Is South Africa an ENL, ESL, or EFL country? What makes this difficult to determine?

9. What are the social messages attached to the use of English and local languages in the media and local institutions? Using examples from India, the Philippines, East and South Africa, explain why this is an important issue in the development of world English and the ensuing clash of cultures.