Language teaching in a national context

Abstract

If one could describe languages as an indigenous product of the countries where they are spoken, how could one describe them when these languages are transplanted from their native milieu to that of a foreign country? One could whimsically compare transplanted languages to exotic plants. The languages that are taught outside their native context, have to be fitted into a different context the nature of which is determined by the needs and exigencies of the country where these languages are taught as well as by the mechanism of the people's own language which generally gives rise to the problem of bilingualism.