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Major versus Minor? Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgement -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Languages -- 1. The "minor language" perspective -- References -- 2. The language milieu of the Old Order Amish -- Introduction -- The state of the world's languages -- Reasons for concern -- The language context of the United States -- Pennsylvania Deitsch -- Old Order Amish language use and language maintenance -- Discussion and conclusion -- References -- 3. English - The Last Lingua Franca? -- Reference -- 4. National identities and the Latin language in Hungary and Croatia -- References -- 5. Error and innovation in postcolonial composition -- World Englishes and cultural translation -- Bilingual creativity and composition studies -- Sameness and difference in a postcolonial classroom -- World Englishes: The promise of a term -- Conclusion -- References -- 6. Cultivating learners' intellectual growth and conceptual thinking skills -- Introduction -- Rationale and significance of the study -- Objectives of the study -- Methods used in the study -- The population -- The procedures -- Method of data collection -- Data analysis -- Findings -- Part I: Personal information about the participants -- Part II: The participants' writing errors in the pre-test -- Part III: The participants' writing improvements -- Level 4. Types of grammatical and punctuation error -- Level 3. Types of grammatical and punctuation error -- Comparison of participants' writing improvement -- Participants' improvements in using discourse markers -- Participants' writing improvement reflected in their haiku poems -- Conclusions and implications -- Research question 1. How does reading impact the participants' writing development?