Introduction
“From now on, nothing that happens on our planet is only a limited local event.” (Beck, 2000) We live in an increasingly interdependent world. With the development of technology, the distance between people and nations have become nearer and our world becomes a global village. “Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa.” (Giddens, 1990, p. 64) The way in which individuals, groups and countries are interrelated and interdependent politically, economically, and socially is described as globalisation. It has already …show more content…
There are some countries even put more emphasis on the foreign language teaching. Singapore is a typical example of that. Mandarin, Malay and Tamil scores are no longer essential qualification for Singaporean university admission but a pass in English and who are unable to attain this minimum grade in English have to take remedial classes. This has led scholars such as Liu, Zhao and Goh (2007), to predict that “while the last school-going generation have seen the shift from Chinese dialects to Mandarin, the next generation may see the shift from Mandarin to English. This trend is already seen in the significant decline in the readership of Chinese newspapers” (Tan, 2007 cited in Sung and Spolsky, 2014: …show more content…
In China, there are only two directions, science (biology, chemistry and physics) or arts (history, geography and politics) for students to choose in upper secondary school. Moreover, most schools in China still bases on examination-oriented education system. But now there is an increasing number of alternative international schools for parents and students to choose. In international schools, there are far more subjects to choose from than regular secondary schools. Students are no longer limited to science and arts. On the contrary, they are given more options of subjects and choose to study what they are interested in international school. After graduating from the international school, students will be able to study abroad. Studying abroad is a great opportunity to widen students’ horizon by meeting different people and learning about different cultures. In a world of increasing communications and fusions of cultures, the youth are easier to exchange ideas with different people, which can help him or her think in different ways. Globalisation is making our world become a place where culture blend and concept collide