TY - BOOK AU - Hess, Nico TI - Introducing global englishes SN - 9781788823555 AV - PE1073 U1 - 420.9 PY - 2019/// CY - United Kingdom PB - ED-Tech Press KW - English languages KW - Globalization KW - Test of English as a Foreign Language KW - English KW - Speaking countries KW - English language KW - Variation N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliography pages (288-291) N2 - It is estimated that the number of native English speakers is 300 million to 450 million. More than one billion people are believed to speak some form of English. Although the numbers vary, it is widely accepted that hundreds of millions of people around the world speak English, whether as a native, second or a foreign language. English, in some form, has become the native or unofficial language of a majority of the countries around the world today ER -