Languages in a Multicutural World: An Exam containing 25 short essay questions

Would establishing English as the official language of US help to preserve English

No . The establishment of the English language as an official language was not formally done . It was just adopted as a consensus . According to Wiley , despite the existence of English as the official language , other languages will come into the picture as many races exist in the United States . However , since it was for a long time that English was used as an official language , the people are used to it

2 . Is monolingualism a bad thing ? If so

, why ? If not , why not

No . It is not a bad thing . It is preservation of language . It is up to the country to enact laws in establishing a single language to be used for communication . But monolingualism is not really legall practiced in the US . For example , Germans who migrated to the US were allowed to speak their own language while in the public , in schools , in the church and in their homes (Wiley ,

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3 . How can multilingualism be seen as a political and social problem

It is a political problem in the sense that it confuses the people as well as immigrants

It is argued that immigrants as minorities must surrender using their own language and use English for instance as official language in exchange of the privilege to stay in the US . However , there is no law that supports that . So then , immigrants are actually allowed to use their own language while in...