THE IMPORTANCE OF USING ECLECTIC METHOD IN TEACHING ENGLISH

Abstract

Currently, the modern world is undergoing significant political, economic, social, demographic and cultural changes. Technological improvement has accelerated the pace of globalization, and development, competition, interconnection and cooperation have become key features of the international economy and foreign policy. Also, economic, political and ideological boundaries began to blur between countries, the process of world integration began, instilling hope and faith in establishing peace and maintaining stability in relations. In addition, it is important to take into consideration that the fact of fluency in English today is not as important for linguistic globalization as the fact of its active use. In comparison with the world’s most widely spoken language Mandarin Chinese, has about 1 billion native speakers, and English has about 400 million, however, according to the British Council, there are still about 2 billion people who regularly use English. Moreover, global Internet communication, the main tool of which has historically been able to become English, is inexorably expanding the composition of the “users” of the global language. When representatives “gadget generations” will make up the majority of the world’s population, the consequences of these trends will worsen. We can see that signs of this today. For instance, the UN currently uses five official languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese, but about 90% of international organizations use English as at least one of their official languages (while French already accounts for less than 50%). Furthermore, about a third of international organizations employ widely English as an official language and this figure is growing – more than 90% among Asian international organizations.