ABSTRACT
The teaching of English as a second or foreign language has become increasingly important with the rapid globalization of the world that needed a lingua franca. The list continues but becomes more complex as today there are approaches that include the content to be taught in addition to the language that needs to be acquired, such as English as a medium of instruction and Content and language integrated learning. The most recent Communicative Period has aimed at teaching for “real-life communication” and is associated with Communicative Language Teaching and Task-based Language Teaching. Language embodies the values of the culture and takes on communication patterns of speech styles and ways of listening as well as concepts of space and time, as described by the Lewis Model. English for specific purposes is concerned with the language used by specific communities which are connected by their discourse or the fact that they communicate with each other to achieve common goals.
