World Englishh. As has been well documented ( Sedlhofer, 2005), English has developed into a lingua franca for the modern world. In the early 1980s, Kachru coined the term “World English” to describe the variety of English that have developed (Kachru, 1992). One of the main goals of English language education is for students to communicate not only with native speakers but also with non-native speakers. Students exposed mainly to sanitized English in materials published for learners are often shocked when they encounter English in the real world and this shock
is doubled if this English is not in the most standard American or British
accent. One solution to this problem is to expose students to authentic English in as many dialects as possible.