THE IMPACT OF THE GLOBALIZATION AS A PHENOMENON IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

The globalization as a world process undoubtedly infiltrates all social categories and disciplines of life. This phenomenon affects each individual in a world that is constantly shrinking and affects one’s intimate existence within the communication, economy, health, medicine, everyday learning and more. It is a challenge especially for academic and teaching educational process as a whole.
The word globe as a term etymologically comes from English language in the 15th century, which as a communication tool has emerged as a primary one in the information and technological processes in the 21st century. The globalization as a sociollogical element in a contemporary global society serves for expressing ideas, thoughts, emotions and value systems and its impact on teaching and pedagogy would be demonstrated by successful practice examples in teaching. We are going to talk about two contemporary methods in teaching English - Blended Learning and CLIL, and multiculturalism as well which are continually integrating the English language with other subjects areas and disciplines with the help of the information technology tools.
The attention will be drawn to the growing spread of the introduction of standards and criteria in normative educational formal documents in English speaking countries such as CEFR, ELP, EU Framework of Key Competences, National Framework of Competences and other.
The conclusion particularly in terms of the language teaching and realisation of the goals of educational language programs treats the language as a world language – lingua franca which surpasses the geographical areas and changes the local contexts, but also exists as an identification and peoples identity and culture.