Here's why native English speakers are losing out in the global business market

Flickr / Sebastiaan ter Burg Language skills are often trumpeted as a cornerstone of social integration, allowing citizens to participate fully in their host communities. British prime minister David Cameron recently announced a 20 million-pound fund for English language lessons to tackle radicalization in the UK, for example. Similarly, US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has called for assimilation and English-speaking in the US. But with transnational mobility and trade a defining feature of...