An Overview on Globalization Issues in ELT by Cultural Settings towards Glocalization and Applying in Curriculum and Syllabus Design

By the spread and ownership of English in the new globalized arena, and by the great realization of World Englishes towards this miscellaneous geographical diffusion of English and local settings, a wide range of studies has been conducted to explore these new different varieties of English. Therefore, in today’s world, by huge communication and telecommunication infrastructures among global context, English as an International Language (EIL) has emerged its definition for the reason of international communication. In this scene, the great deal of western norms in contact with different local and cultural contexts, the term glocalization has emerged to compose globally appropriate norms by locally and culturally accepted settings. This paper introduces how these new challenging glocalized norms were maintained by western globalized forms in (ELT) pedagogy. As a result, it was the reason that in implication of glocalization in (ELT), by awareness of local needs and culturally acceptable norms, curriculum and syllabus designers have considered a new framework for developing their appropriate syllabi in terms of functional principles.

An Overview on Globalization Issues in ELT by Cultural Settings towards Glocalization and Applying in Curriculum and Syllabus Design Keywords:

globalization , EFL , EIL , ELT , Syllabus design , Curriculum development