Globalization and language teaching

Block, David & Cameron, Deborah (eds.) (2002). Globalization and Language Teaching. London: Routledge. 

Block and Cameron's collection considers the issues globalization raises for second language learning and teaching. It shows how, in an economy based on services and information in which new forms of power and resistance emerge, the linguistic skills of workers becomes increasingly important, new technologies make possible new kinds of language teaching and language becomes an economic commodity with a value in the global marketplace. All of this has implications for how and why people learn languages, and for which languages they learn..