DOI: 10.18503/2658-3186-2021-5-4-34-38
Abstract. The article explains the current state of the English language in educational discourse. Historical facts and Ages of the English language explain the diversity of English. It shows interweaving and interaction of the Internet and the English language. The author puts forward the idea of witnessing the emergence of a new type of the Global English language, as the spread of varieties of the English language (dialects, variants) will lead to a division into incomprehensible new languages, and in this case, the fate of the Latin language awaits the English language. Linguistic and extra linguistic transformations of the English language as global ones, has changed the bases of how it is taught and learnt. The shift of the conversational language to its written realization through social nets and messengers must be taken into consideration while teaching. The qualitative research methodology: observation and description analysis are mainly used. The author concludes that the importance and coverage of the English language traces to its historical roots, Global-English-approach to language teaching helps to save its international status, the WWW changes the language on different levels: lexical; morphological; syntactical; phonetic etc. Besides the linguistic dilemma teacher must meet psychological challenges in language skills development.
Keywords: English; global English; educational discourse; social nets; history of English; communication.
Author:
Natalya N. Zerkina, Associate Professor, Candidate of Philology, Head of Foreign Languages for Engineering Chair, Institute of Humanities, Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University (NMSTU), Magnitogorsk, Russia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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For citation
Zerkina N. N. English or Global English: Teaching Dilemmas in Language Skills Development, Gumanitarno-pedagogicheskie issledovaniya [Humanitarian and pedagogical Research], 2021, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 34–38.