Teaching English in Switzerland – Commitment to Common Standards or Movement towards “Globish”?

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 5.5 (CH), University of Bern, language: English, abstract: This paper will present attitudes and consciousness of prospective English teachers in Bern towards these newly emerging forms of international English. A short overview of models of “reduced forms of English” aimed to fulfil international needs will be presented to provide background. Former studies carried out upon that aspect will then be discussed and the hypothesis for the study in Bern will be deduced. From this theoretical background, the study in Bern will be described in the main part of this paper and conclusions will be offered.