English in Scientific Communications

Lee Hadden writes: “There is an interesting article in The Scientist (Volume 17, Issue 5,
number 44, Mar. 10, 2003) about the need for English skills in reading and
speaking for scientists. “No Pardon For Poor English in Science Written and
spoken language skills are critical to careers.” By Sam Jaffe
“…In countries whose languages once competed with English for
dominance, the battle is over. According to papers indexed by ISI, in 1980,
53% of 28,000 papers written in France were in French. By 2000 the
proportion of French-language papers had dropped to 13%. Likewise, German-
language papers fell from 47% of overall papers produced in Germany in 1980
to 11% by 2000.

…Even more promising, though, is the advent of automatic
translation software. (
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March 15, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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