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- Title
The Changing Global Economy and the Future of English Teaching.
- Authors
Warschauer, Mark
- Abstract
The article examines the growth of informationalism in English language. The shift toward a global informational economy will intensify as well, integrating more countries and regions into the global market and further spurring the need for workers worldwide in diverse occupations, from Webmaster to food server, to learn English. The most far-reaching changes will come in the area of technology, with the Internet becoming ubiquitous in the developed world and commonplace in urban areas. The expansion of the Internet and its convergence with telephony and video will allow a growing number of people to read, write, speak, and listen to English on a daily basis; to shop and sell; to learn and teach; to collaborate and struggle. Globalization will result in the further spread of English as an international language and a shift of authority to nonnative speakers and dialects. The above changes, taken together, will render ineffective curricula based strictly on syntactic or functional elements or narrowly defined tasks.
- Subjects
AUDIOVISUAL aids in English language education; GLOBALIZATION; INTERNET; EDUCATIONAL films; DIALECTS; CURRICULUM
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 2000, Vol 34, Issue 3, p511
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3587741