ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#104 | November 14 | ISSN 0975-3036

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Glocalisation Of English Studies In The Perspective Of Globalization

by

Dr.Sitaram Bhargava

Dr.Sitaram Bhargava is an associate professor in English at Govt.college,Jhunjhunu. He is   an M.Phil ( ELT ), PhD ( ELT ) and SLET. He has attended several   national and international seminars , conferences and workshops; his several reaearch papers have been published in reputed journals.  His book ‘ Decolonising English:-A Study Of The Poetry Of Nissim Ezekiel And A.K.Ramanujan ’has recently been published. His specialisation is ‘English language teaching’ and  ‘Indian writing  In English’.

Abstract

The term ‘ global English ’ is a product of globalization . Ideally and ideologically ‘glo-balisation’ should mean delocalization and denationalization . Whereas , what is happening in the name of globalization is only economic globalization , that too the creation of an international market for a few multinational companies. The West wants to keep the multi billion dollar global English teaching industry in the hands of a small group of Anglo-American native speakers of English , their English alone is ‘ standard’ and it is race/ class marked.

The  present research paper explores the idea of developing an understanding of globalization which will offer a great deal of assistance in beginning to understand the function and meaning of globalization. Glocalisation also presents a potential response to meant to offer protection against the more negative effects of globalization .Globalisation can be found to harm local economics , undermine the sovereignity of governments, and create instances of unemployment and poverty in various parts of the world.   It presents a care in favour of the globalization of social work to enhance the social welfare of citizens. The paper proposes to take into the consideration the socio-cultural, economic and technological aspects of acquisition of English as a second language . (more…)