Basic English Language
A Basic English Language is an English-based controlled language.
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- See: English Language, Controlled Language, ESL, Special English, Simplified English.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English Retrieved:2015-6-10.
- Basic English is an English-based controlled language created by linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a second language. Basic English is, in essence, a simplified subset of regular English. It was presented in Ogden's book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930).
Ogden's Basic, and the concept of a simplified English, gained its greatest publicity just after the Allied victory in World War II as a means for world peace. Although Basic English was not built into a program, similar simplifications have been devised for various international uses. Ogden's associate I. A. Richards promoted its use in schools in China. [1] More recently, it has influenced the creation of Voice of America's Special English for news broadcasting, and Simplified English, another English-based controlled language designed to write technical manuals. What survives today of Ogden's Basic English is the basic 850-word list used as the beginner's vocabulary of the English language taught worldwide, especially in Asia. [2]
- Basic English is an English-based controlled language created by linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a second language. Basic English is, in essence, a simplified subset of regular English. It was presented in Ogden's book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930).
- ↑ Time Magazine. Dec. 31, 1945. Education: Globalingo
- ↑ Edmond H Weiss The Elements of International English Style, pp. 17-18, M. E. Sharpe, 2005 ISBN 978-0-7656-1572-5
1937
- (Ogden, 1937) ⇒ Charles Kay Ogden. (1937). “Basic English and Grammatical Reform." Cambridge: The Orthological Institute.