Academicia a n I n t e r n a t I o n a L

INTRODUCTION: THE EXTENSIVE USE OF ENGLISH 
Globalization, which is the tendency to world-wide convergence in education and other sectors 
(Held et al., 1999), is making English key to the success of the most individuals, enhancing the 
role of English as a universal global 
lingua franca 
(Crystal, 2003): 
It is English that stands at the very centre of the global language systems. It has become the 
lingua franca par excellence and continues to entrench this dominance in a self-reinforcing 
process. It has become the central language of communication in business, politics, 
administration, science and academia, as well as being the dominant language of globalized 
advertising and popular culture. (Held et al., p346) 
Furthermore, the number of international universities, where English serves as the teaching 
language, is increasing and they are also getting the dominant position in the development of this 
world as they gather students with different ideas from various developed as well as developing 
countries, united with the help of English. Hence, more and more people of differing ages are 
opting for learning English everywhere, including in Uzbekistan, either to go to a foreign country 
for a particular purpose or to get more opportunities for self-development.
This, in turn, requires more sophisticated, intensive and straightforward methods to learn the 
language now that people are struggling to find time for additional activities in this fast moving 
world. Yet Asian countries
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teaching English systems seem to be inadequate in accordance with 
the results of studies conducted with Asian international students in Australia in the last decade. 
Thus, the development of English in the students
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home countries in addition to the systems 
provided by English speaking countries is vital.
Difficulties with English 
In fact, there has been some development in learning English thanks to the new style of teaching 
which focuses on all language skills, namely Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary (sections 
that have been originally emphasized), as well as Listening and Speaking 
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which are then found 
to be requisite skills in the international atmosphere. To demonstrate, more people are competent 
users of the language in terms of speaking and listening for they are engaged in an English 
environment more compared to the past even in their home countries. However, TESOL students 
still prove to lack of sufficient academic writing skills, confident conversational skills, analytical 
reading skills and superior listening skills due to lessons which are still mainly teacher-orientated 
and depend on rote learning largely.