Change is inevitable. Throughout all of history, languages have been pushed together and pulled apart from each other to form all of the different languages that we have today. English specifically was one of the languages to branch off from Latin. As different people learn English, different twists are put on the language. In the article The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued, Canagarajah defines Metropolitan Englishes as, “spoken by the communities that traditionally claimed ownership over the language in England, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand”. He also says that, “…World Englishes are rule governed, with well established norms and communicative functions suitable for their new environment”. Communities take the English language and turn it into their World English by speaking it in the most appropriate way for their community setting. Canagarajah continues to speak about how although English is unique to different communities everywhere, we are still required to teach and learn it as Standard English. The argument is surfaced that English in literature and education should be changed because of the social and communitive diversity in the language. English is becoming a language spoken mostly by multilingual individuals. Canagarajah -acknowledging this- believes that multilingual speakers will soon be able to challenge these standards of education. [Asides set off by dashes]. He further believes that all Englishes should enjoy the same status and that anyone who grew up speaking any of these Englishes could be considered a native speaker. The teaching of solely Standard English inside of schools creates a barrier between a student’s life inside and outside of the classroom. The schools don’t include the information that students should be learning on all of the different diversities. When their educations at school don’t relate to their home lives, they become much more disinterested with school as a whole. Canagarajah, although he thinks it’s important to find a solution to the basic classroom education, realizes that it isn’t as simple as it seems to let go of only teaching the Standard English style. [Complex sentence, independent clause and dependent clause joined by a subordinating conjunction]. He believes that by not focusing only on a target language and by learning to balance the different language communities, we can create one large relatable community. Instead of finding errors in students' English, we should focus on finding reasoning behind what they say and connect that to what they need to learn. 

Reading this article, I learned how complex the English language really is. I learned that the way it is taught in schools really does inhibit students and how they connect their education to their life at home. It’s important to understand how each individual student learns English and what they previously know before trying to teach them anything new. Connecting what they already know to new information will help them to better understand it. Although this is very important for students in middle school/high school classrooms, it is important for younger students as well. I plan to teach elementary school students. Teaching students English at such a young age means they have less background on the language. I will be playing a large part in creating their background. I think that this is extremely important because this gives me (their educator) the opportunity to allow them to incorporate their English into the standard English that is required to be on the board. [an aside set off by parenthesis]. 

 Canagarajah, A. Suresh. "The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued." (2015): 587-94. JSTOR. Web.