ermined that constitutes language in its most essential sense." M.A.K. Halliday (1975) notes that the semantic system--the system of meanings--which a child constructs develops concurrently with his social system, thus forming a unitary system. In this perspective, it is neither scientifically correct nor pedagogically sound to separate knowledge, affects, learning, and socialization conceptually and operationally.
The matter of which English is to be taught seems to constitute a quasi-religious fanatical object of argumentation among foreign teachers of English. Yet, there is only one English language. Even as Arabs have adopted Modern Standard Arabic as their lingua franca across national borders, native speakers of English use Standard English. Modern Standard Arabic is essentially the Southwest or South Central Semitic language of the Arab, which is now (in a variety of dialects) the prevailing language of the Arabian Peninsula and most of the Middle East and North Africa. Historically, "Almost all written material
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