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Al-Issa, Ali – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
Historically and as a developing country, the Sultanate of Oman has always been culturally dependent on Britain to plan and implement its English Language Teaching (ELT) and in-service teacher education. This dependency has negatively affected preparing English language teachers with a new global professional identity capable of introducing change…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Al-Issa, Ali – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2019
The government of the Sultanate of Oman actively promotes the value of English as a global "lingua franca" to support modernization and national economic growth. This policy, however, creates difficulties for many teachers, who find themselves implementing certain practices that conflict with a vision of English language teaching (ELT)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries