"Ante et Retro Occulata": Looking Back and Looking Forward
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Issued Date
2014
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Language
eng
File Type
application/pdf
No. of Pages/File Size
13 page
ISSN
2156-5716
Citation
International Journal Of Innovation in English Language Teaching and Research. Vol. 3.1 (2014): 73-85
Title
"Ante et Retro Occulata": Looking Back and Looking Forward
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Abstract
This article briefly looks at what changes might occur linguistically with the widening
of English within ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) while at the same time looking at
the changes that have taken place in both the language and attitude in the history of English
in its country of origin in terms of two forms of imperative: the cooperative and the
territorial. In one case, the cooperative imperative is seen as a need to continually modify
the language in order to communicate with people within new contexts and cultures. On the
other, the territorial imperative seeks to secure and protect a separate and social identity.
What lessons can we learn from history and what consequences such lessons can have for
teaching in terms of the differences between teaching English as a foreign language (EFL)
and the growing awareness of the wider use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) will also be
discussed.