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- Title
Paradigm Shift in English Teaching.
- Authors
Sharma, Binda; Tiwari, Sunita
- Abstract
What separates a man from other species is his ability to form his opinions in words that are intelligible to others around him. The very ability of ours to communicate has made us the predominant species on the earth. Over the span of centuries thousands of cultures have flourished which has resulted in us having millions of languages, but over the years no language has had the over extending reach as English. The language that became almost the second language of the entire world and in some cases the first is now the very language of communication around the world. With the immense development and shrinking of the so called boundaries dominated by countries or cultures and also the economic interests of the people has forced the world to shrink. With all this globalization and the seamless transfer of information, ideas and knowledge it has become imperative that there be a language that allows us to formulate all this which is understood by all. Hence the very importance of English brings to the fore. As our elders have said no sapling can live without the proper nourishment, the very importance of the English teaching across the globe cannot be understated. It has now grown from study of literature or just phonetics to an entire set of programming that is required for the world to thrive. It is this modernization and the role of English teaching that this paper intends to bring forth.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language education; COMMUNICATION; GLOBALIZATION; GRADDOL, David; FUTURE of English, The (Book); LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 1, p168
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article