IMAGO Interculturalité et Didactique
Volume 10, Numéro 1, Pages 165-170
2009-04-01
English As A Global Language
Authors : Taleb-baghli Wafaa .
Abstract
Globalization means connectivity, integration and interdependence in different spheres such as the economic, social, technological, political, ecological and cultural spheres. The Encyclopedia Britanica says that globalization is" the process by which the experience of everyday life . . .is becoming standardized around the world.' As far as economics are concerned, a broad definition is that globalization is the convergence of prices, products, wages, rates of interest and profits towards developed country norms. International Monetary Fund (IMF) notes the growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through increasing volume and variety of commercial transactions, free international capital flows, and more rapid widespread technology. Yet, globalization has various aspects which affect the world in several domains such as industry (alias trans nationalization) with the emergence of worldwide production markets, finance with the emergence of worldwide financial markets and better access to external financing for na11tional and sub-national borrowers, politics with the desire to create a world government which regulates the relationships among nations, economy with the creation of common markets for a free exchange of goods and capital, informational domain with an increase of flows of information between geographically remote locations(mainly thanks to Internet) ,in addition to the cultural domain with a growth of cross-cultural contacts, cultural diffusion, the desire to enjoy foreign ideas ,and to participate in "world culture"
Keywords
English, Globalization, World Culture
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