Intercultural Perspectives of the English Language in Europe

Sa？etak The aim of this study is to draw attention to the change of EL usage from a global lingua franca which has been removing the language barriers to a new cultural phenomenon that is used to enforce the penetration of different cultures and to ensure their promotion. Thus, it is a necessity to tackle the subject of up-to-date and diverse cultural contents brought to Europe via the internet and its implications on the language. The example of Asian pop-cultural phenomenon will be provided. It has been viewed and examined via the survey conveyed among the students of Juraj Dobrila University of Pula whose obligatory foreign language is English. They were subjected to a Personal Questionnaire created by this author in order to tackle the following questions: Do you think English will spread without end? Will countries outside the Anglophone group continue to learn English? What changes of English could we expect due to economic and social changes? The first two questions were answered positively by 61.6% and 64.6% of students. 64.6% of them believe there will be more changes of the English language as such due to dynamic changes that have been influencing it. In the end, students gave different reasons and opinions for their claims which have been further elaborated in this paper