IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION ON EFL STUDENTS IN ALGERIA: CASE OF FIRST-YEAR EFL STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TLEMCEN

Abstract

The current research work is an attempt to investigate the impacts that might result from the preponderant process of globalisation and its trends on EFL students, in congruence with the discipline of ELT at the University of Tlemcen. Hence, the principal objective is to reveal the attitudes of EFL students and the viewpoints of their teachers toward the effects of globalisation hand-in-hand with the unprecedented advance of ICTs and the prevailing status of English as the global language and the hegemony of American culture. Accordingly, this dissertation is divided into three interrelated chapters; the first chapter provides a theoretical background about the concept of globalisation and its multi-facetted levels in which there were probes to crystallise the reported findings about globalisation with regard to the attitudes of EFL students as well as implications about the development of ELT in Algeria. The second chapter, however, showcases the status of ELT within the light of globalisation and its developments in Algeria as well as a brief theoretical account about the research methodology. The third chapter concretises the practical work which comprises data collection, analyses and discussion by means of qualitative and quantitative methods of examination in furtherance of relevant recommendations that conform to the research problematic. In this vein, the results confirmed what was hypothesised in which EFL students are highly affected by globalization in terms of their attitudes as they are influenced by the Americanisation process and the advance of ICTs in which they became overdependent on it. It also showed that the implementation of the LMD system and the Competency-based approach was indirectly imposed on Algeria in order to modernise the educational sector and harmonise it with the international educational systems.