A Diachronic Perspective on the Changing Roles of English as a Medium of Instruction

• Authors: Robin Anderson

Abstracts

EN

What are the implications for the unassailable position of the English language in social, professional and academic contexts in the world today? In this paper we briefly outline some of the watershed changes in the way we have viewed the teaching/learning of English and how we have evolved our notions as to what kind of English needs to be taught/learned. We argue that we are again at a watershed moment and intend to briefly analyse this and ask where we should be heading in the future.

Keywords

EN

English language teaching approaches; English as a lingua franca; English as a medium of instruction; the economic; academic and social place of English; English hegemony

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 127-142

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Robin Anderson

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2076589