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among others through communication, and language is a medium to communicate. Thus language has important role in the life to express idea, opinion, thought, and socialize among human being. Through language, people can develop relationship, learn such as culture, knowledge, and discover the world. The language that has important role in the international world is English. It cannot be avoided that English is the most widely spoken language in the world. The spread of English all over the world was very fast. The higher economical growing of English people and the successful of colonization, made many people relied on English as common language used for communication in the global world. No matter as first, second or foreign language. As stated by Meyer: English is currently the most widely spoken language in the world. Mandarin Chinese may have more speakers, but no language is spoken in more parts of the world than the English language. The global reach of English is one reason the language has more non-native speakers than native speaker. The popularity of English, it must be emphasized, has little to do with the languge itself, and more to do with geopolitical considerations: the initial spread of English world-wide as a consequence of British colonization, and the rise of the twenty century of the United States as an economic and political power in the world. 5 In addition, Harmer stated, “although English is not the language with the largest number of native or first language speaker, it has become a lingua franca. A lingua franca can be defined as a language widely adopted for communication between two s peakers whose native language are different from each other’s and where one or both speaker are using it as second language”. 6 Thus, as a lingua franca, English has important role in global world that is used to communicate in the international relationship. In More than Native Speaker book mentioned “the growing role of English as the world’s international language make its mastery especially important in a world brought ever closer together by globalization”. 7 Again this book mentioned that: …learning English means developing the ability to understand and interact with a universe that is largely inaccessible to those who don’t know English. 5 Meyer op. cit., p. 1. 6 Jeremy Harmer, The practice of English Language Teaching, 3 rd ed, Harlow: Person Education Limited, 2001, p. 1. 7 Ellen Garshick ed., More Than a Native Speaker, Arlington: TESOL, Inc., 2006, p. 6.