ON THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF THE GLOBAL LANGUAGE VERSIONS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE CHOICE OF A LANGUAGE TEACHING MODEL (THE CASE OF ENGLISH)

Abstract

Within the period of their intensive growth have developed a bunch of their distinctive characteristics like: linguistic and extra linguistic nature of Global Englishes, implication of the interlocutors’ linguistic repertoire in the process speech communication, attitudes to static norms and standards of English as a native language, observance of lingocultural norms by users of Global Englishes and manner of their observance, conformity of dominant teaching methods with communicative mission of Global Englishes and some others. The author of this article highlights lingua franca and translanguaging as mostly endowed with special features of a global communicative tool. Aforementioned peculiarities of Global Englishes have engendered a constantly deepening mismatch between dominant worldwide teaching methods on the one hand, and basic linguistic and communicative features of the language taught on the other. With this in mind the author of this paper presents view points of leading experts in this field of linguistics in favor of moving from longstanding academic debates on linguistic and extra linguistic nature of Global Englishes to a joint comprehensive activity, aimed at creation and implementation of language teaching paradigm optimal for teaching Global Englishes with the focus on lingua franca и translanguaging.