e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(1):56-62 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2010.008

English as a Global Language of Civilization. Educational Dilemmas about the Approach to Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language

Joanna Kapica-Curzytek
Dr Joanna Kapica-Curzytek, Instytut Neofilologii, Uniwersytet Zielonogórski, Al. Wojska Polskiego 71 a, 65 762 Zielona Góra, Poland, e-mail: j.curzytek@snjo.uz.zgora.pl

English is the world language. Therefore, English taught and learned as a foreign language has a different status than other languages. Teaching and learning is no more connected to the specific cultural or national values of the English-speaking countries. Instead, they are substituted with the global/universal values. This phenomenon has got many educational consequences, for example it requires the new role of the teacher of English who becomes a broker of the global values. Questions about model of teaching English are also posed here.

Keywords: English language, world (universal) language, teaching English, cultural values, global culture

Published: February 1, 2010  Show citation

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Kapica-Curzytek, J. (2010). English as a Global Language of Civilization. Educational Dilemmas about the Approach to Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language. e-Pedagogium, 10(1), 56-62. doi: 10.5507/epd.2010.008
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