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English as a Foreign Language Teaching and Productivity in Global Hypercompetition

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  • Bryan Christiansen

    (PryMarke, LLC, Battle Creek, MI, USA)

  • Fatmanur Kasarcı

    (Independent Researcher, Istanbul, Turkey)

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The global marketplace is characterized by various changes occurring in economic, social, natural, and technological areas. As such, experts in numerous fields are still working to revise various systems and infrastructures to operate in a robust manner within the new realities of today. This article focuses on part of that massive effort by examining the methods used in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in non-English speaking countries and its potential impact on long-term economic sustainability and productivity since English remains the global business language. The article commences with an introduction to the realities of contemporary globalism that underscore the very purpose for this work, and the subsequent sections present and then synthesize all material to create a paradigm shift in thinking required for teaching EFL in non-English speaking nations.

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  • Bryan Christiansen & Fatmanur Kasarcı, 2016. "English as a Foreign Language Teaching and Productivity in Global Hypercompetition," International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (IJIDE), IGI Global, vol. 7(4), pages 46-55, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jide00:v:7:y:2016:i:4:p:46-55
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