English major belongs to literature, but it is subdivided into several directions (English education, business English, applied English and so on). ) English education is mainly to train teachers for schools and then become teachers, so it belongs to education.

Introduction: English is a language of Indo-European Germanic language family, which consists of 26 letters. English letters originated from Latin letters, which originated from Greek letters, which evolved from Phoenician letters. English is the official language designated internationally (as the mother tongue), the most widely used first language in the world, and the official language of the European Union, many international organizations and Commonwealth countries. The number of native speakers of English ranks third in the world, second only to Chinese and Spanish.

History: English evolved from the language spoken by white people from Anglo-Saxon and jute tribes who immigrated to the British Isles from Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands and surrounding areas, and spread to all parts of the world through the active exchanges of British colonists. Due to contact with many national languages in history, vocabulary has changed from unitary to pluralistic, grammar has changed from "more inflections" to "less inflections", and pronunciation has also changed regularly. 19 From the 20th century, the leading position of Britain and America in world culture, economy, military affairs, politics and science made English an international language. Nowadays, English is used as a medium of communication in many international situations.

Development: In the future, English itself will undergo new changes, and simpler and simpler is its development trend. Professor Zhou Haizhong, a famous linguist in China, boldly predicted in the article "English Characteristics in 2 1 century" that by the end of this century, English spelling and pronunciation will be gradually unified; Irregular changes in vocabulary and grammar are transformed by analogy; Use abbreviations, ellipsis and short sentences to make words economically; The conversion of parts of speech is extremely flexible, and the expression is more concise and concise; The repetition rate of common words is quite high; The boundaries between countable nouns and uncountable nouns, transitive verbs and intransitive verbs almost disappear. All these will greatly facilitate people to learn and use English as a communication tool.