I have written the following articles on the problems of English as the lingua franca of science:
 

• Mahoney, T. J.  2001, `The problem of English as a foreign language in professional astronomy', in Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol. 256, Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy, ed. A. Heck (Dordrecht: Kluwer), pp. 185-92
• Mahoney, T. J. 2001, `Overcoming the English language barrier', in ASP Conference Series, Special IAU Assembly: Astronomy for Developing Countries, ed. A. Batten (San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific), 333