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POSTMODERNISM PROBLEMS

Electronic Issue

ISSN:1314-3700
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Multilingualism, Multiculturalism and Globalization

Driss Ridouani

Abstract

Language or rather the national language -mother tongue - plays a crucial role in the establishment and preservation of national and group identity as it constitutes the storage area where the social and cultural values and the medium of the historical memory usually crop up. Surprisingly, in response to the crucial imperative demands of the third millennium -communication technologies come first - the prerequisite of the educational processes necessitates the learning of other languages namely French and English. However, learning a second language is not an end in itself, in the sense that it remains confined within the framework of being opened to others languages, but it goes beyond this frontier to assume and integrate the cultures that are affiliated in these languages. Added to the process of learning a second language, advanced communication technologies enhances the dissemination and implantation of Western culture. In accordance with postmodern theorists, the production of information is associated with power benefit. Far from being the outcome of a neutral reality as it was the case of the modern Enlightenment, knowledge has a dynamic and imperative objective that is usually launched by people with more power than other people. In the vein of empowerment, those in power shape the curricular agendas; determine how endowment is allocated, and specify the prospects of the recent and the future hegemony over the subaltern. This paper is an attempt to outline the interconnectedness of the three-pronged relationship between multilingualism, multiculturalism and globalization and the way they affect each other.

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