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成绩________________《世界英语概览》课程论文南非英语院（系）名 称： 新闻与传播学院专 业 名 称 ：新闻与传播学大类学 生 姓 名 ：李阳雪学 号 ：2012300710026指 导 教 师 ：张妍岩 副教授二○一二年四月The South African EnglishCollege：College of Journalism and Communication Subject：Journalism and CommunicationName ：Directed by ： The Associate ProfessorApril 2012郑 重 申 明本人呈交的学位论文，是在导师的指导下，独立进行研究工作所取得的成果，所有数据、图片资料真实可靠。尽我所知，除文中已经注明引用的内容外，本学位论文的研究成果不包含他人享有著作权的内容。对本论文所涉及的研究工作做出贡献的其他个人和集体，均已在文中以明确的方式标明。本学位论文的知识产权归属于培养单位。本人签名：___________ 日期：____________Chapter OneGeneral Situation of South African English 1.1Let’s see South Africa! ---The survey of South AfricaPerhaps, those U.K navigators arrived at the South African coast as far back as the 16 century, but the large-scale immigrants actually began in 1820 when the U.K invaded “the Cape”, which had been established by the Dutch in 1652.At that time, the first group of almost 4000 to 5000 British moved there and settled down. Then, after the South Africa war which is also called “the Boer War” happened in 1899 to 1902, the British conquered the South Africa throughout.In 1910, the U.K government organized the “Union of South Africa”as the dominion of U.K. The U.K didn’t rule South Africa until 1961 when the authority of South Africa declared to drop out of the British Commonwealth and changed the name of country as “The Republic of South Africa”. It was because of this historical reason that English and the Afrikaans became the official languages in South Africa at the same time.Now, the population of South Africa is close to 4000 million, 70 percent of which is black. There are also 18 percent of populations is white, 9 percent of population is the Mixed-Race and 3 percent of population is Asian.1.2What has happened to South African English? ---The history and status of South African English Although, there are only 10 percent of 3000 million people in South Africa speak English as mother tongue, the importance of English is far more than that. English is the second most common languages, which is used