SYNOPSIS ON PHONOLOGICAL, LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL PROBLEMS OF ARABIC SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AT ELTIS Submitted to:

This century has witnessed a lot of changes in the teaching and learning of English as a foreign or second language. The roles of teachers have evolved through a lot of experiments and methods. From grammar translation to audio lingual to communicative teaching, English language teachers and learners have experienced tremendous changes. These processes of teaching and learning have been influenced not only by the evolution of methods and techniques but also by the international, cultural, economic and technological changes in the world. English has come out as a language of communication across the world. It is no longer a foreign language to the non-native users of English. Graddol (2006) observes that 3 % of the world population migrates thus resulting in change in the social and linguistic mix of destination countries. The use of English as a lingua franca becomes useful in such cases. English as a global lingua franca has helped to transform the world and in turn the world has transformed English. Kachru (1992) in his model of three circles describes the expanse of English in three circles. The inner circle consisting of the native speakers, the outer circle consisting of countries tha