IMPORTANCE OF ENGLISH IN REGIONAL ACADEMIC PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY OF ASIAN-PACIFIC COUNTRIES

Abstract

The paper reviews the historical backdrop of English language with specific identification of its various roles in academic domain. The study is aimed at highlighting spread of English language that is encountered in history since eighteenth century and is still in pace of advancement within the Asia-Pacific region. The data have been collected from different textbooks, research studies and the video documentaries on YouTube channel. Second part of this study makes sense of the turn of events and qualities of English language academic strategies in Asian Pacific nations. The paper highlights those nations that have their place in the growing circle of Kachru's (1985) model, and in the extending circle. Additionally, paper attempts to review the formative qualities of academic techniques adopted for English language within the Asian-pacific nations. Further, paper highlights qualities of English that raises its standard as global language. It tends to underlie particular role for English that is devised between social correspondences all around the planet. The crucial role of educational practices in English is to train the youth to utilise their subtle capabilities in English and readily respond in the international forums with their own proficient capacities.