Eglish as a Medium of Instruction.

In these days, English Language becomes a universal and the language of communication. 10 years ago, the English language is considered as a forieng and people who use it were considered as outer of the Saudi contex. Wg=hile in fact that, when I was a BA students, people looked at me as an educated and professional person. It is wired and complicated to be explained. I have heared that the students were complaining about the difficulity of the English language and thay try to ask some stupid ,and at the same time, clever questions like "why we study the English language while the American and British people do not speak Arabic language?

Nowadays, English is the meduim of instruction in most of the colleges and universities. Because of that, Most, if not all, universities created a prepatory year which the students are expected to know how to master the English language before enroling to their special. In spite of the student's resistance because of one reason or another, the misetry of higher education are working hard to apply it to the rest of other universities.

In my case as a teacher, I really tried to apply the WEs in the university. I bought a book and prepared myself with enough activities. The book was dealing with listening and speaking in different variety of English for students who were in the intensive course. I really like the book because most of the PhD teachers were admired by the way that they had been taught. There were American and British English teachers and they were working hard to grap me to his British/or American net. On the other hand the students made some kind of resistance especially when they heared some Indian and Korian prononciation. They sometimes laughed and made some jokes around. I then, gave them a clear picture about what was going on and why I kept teaching them this kind of book. I briefly told them that the Saudi environment is not American and British speakers. We have people from India, Pakistan, and so on. we have to keep in mind the importance of knowing who would the the audiance and who I would speak with. Finally, The chairman of the department at that time told me that I had to adhere to international series like Interactions becuase he thought that the English language is must be taught by American native apeaker. I understand what Kumar was trying to say when he discuss the three Ps. (Particularity, practicality, possibility)
In this course and after reading some articles, I found out the importance to look at the English language from different corner. Native and non-native dichomy should be omitted and we have to replace it with multilingual users.