Importance Of Teaching English Around The World

Full name?: ELAMMARI Elhabib TEFL.GROUP/2

Teaching English around the world: replacer or helper for the native culture?

Nowadays, English is one of the international languages used as a means of communicating among the different nations of the world. It is used almost in all fields of knowledge including, but not limited to, international communication, tourism, banking, internet and scientific research. Thus, English rendered the world so interconnected and linked. One field in which English is widely used is teaching. Sometimes educators teach it as a foreign language, as a second language and sometimes they teach it to speakers of other languages. Despite the claim that teaching English in these ways reinforces cultural hegemony and alienates students from their native culture because it is accompanied by the teaching of American and British cultures, the teaching of English promotes diversity, openness, and knowledge of other cultures. Some people hold a pessimistic view about English. They think that if teachers teach it as a second or as a foreign language, students will not achieve mastery and fluency in it as that achieved in the mother tongue. This view is not based on a solid ground and cannot be generalized. Instead, students will be accurate and fluent language users due to the efforts made by their teachers. Usually, introducing a new language will