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Actuality of the research is in the fact that the number of people who speak
English has gradually increased all over the world since the mid-16th century.
According to David Crystal, the number of English speakers during the reign of
Queen Elizabeth I ranged between five and seven million while in 1952, during the
reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the number reached 250 million1
. This huge increase in
the number of English speakers in the world is the result of the expansion of the
English language from the British Isles to different areas and continents in the world.
The expansion of English has been labelled by linguist Robert Phillipson as
"linguistic imperialism" 2