Intercultural Communication Studies X: 1 2000 N. Honna 9 Some Remarks on the Multiculturalism of Asian Englishes

English now is said to be an international language or a global language. When we say this, do we really understand what it means? This is a profoundly important question we have to ask ourselves in Japan now when the nation's 24,000 public primary schools are preparing to introduce English language teaching to their fift