ABSTRACT
Teaching English has become a major necessity for developing areas in Asian countries due to globalization. The general purpose of this paper is to discuss the problems related with the novel tendency of teaching English for Asian educational system. This paper discusses the requirements of educational system in Asia for teaching English as well as on the mode of training English applicable skills. It also discusses the qualification and improvement of teachers’ ability to teach literature which helps them change the educational system ensuring that studies are more enjoyable. The current study presents various trends in English literature that could be employed by both the teachers and the students.
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Keywords: Global language, Teaching English, Applicable skills, Professional courses, Multicultural literature,professional knowledge.
1. INTRODUCTION
English as a global language was not completely perceived in the early 1950s to the 1970s, but the prominence of English language as a global one came to be known only in the 1980s. There was a growing perception of the language becoming a universal language which resulted in famous authors making daring proclamations like “English is the global language”(Crystal, 1997).
A questionnaire was presented to various people from all over the world by the British Council in the year 1995 (Paul Iles, 1995). Of the 1,398 respondents who undertook the survey almost 96.3% of them suggested that they either strongly consented or moderately consent that English was and will stay put in the upcoming years as the most prevailing language of the world communication systems.
Apart from this 79.2% responded that they neither consented nor strongly consented for the idea of having another language contesting the role of English as the major language of the world. Fishman (1996) suggested that the present world is governed by massive trade, technology and