1. REGIONAL:
A LOST DIMENSION?

2. ABSTRACT
 Globalization is a social process characterized by the
existence of global economic, political, cultural, linguistic
and environmental interconnections and flows that make
the many of the currently existing borders and
boundaries irrelevant. A regional language is a language
spoken in an area that is part of a larger nation state.

3. BETWEEN GLOBAL AND LOCAL IN LANGUAGE
STUDIES: CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CENTRAL
AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Globalization and it link to the ideologies
sweeping across various domains and practices
of social life:
politics
busines
s
media
resear
ch
educatio
n
life
style
technolo
gies
The actual meanings of globalization vary and
fluctuate, they are generally linked with the
similarity of values that drive
individual collective entire nations to
construe their goals
pursue them in the
way they do it.

4.  In this paper we focus on the
Central & Eastern European
Countries(CEEC)
a peripheral-language macro-context
a region of potentially congruent
acquisitions
adaptations of global ideologies
. These are all foreign-language teaching cultures, of late under a
strong impact of English, and amidst of similar political, social and
cultural transformations.

5.  The purpose of this discussion is to briefly overview the impact of
globalization on the socioeconomic, cultural and linguistic change in
the CEEC region, with special reference to foreign language
research and education.

6. MARKET IDEOLOGIES AND (FOREIGN) LANGUAGE
STUDIES
 Foreign language is a second (or third,or fourth) language
learned in a context where the language is not widely use in
the speech community. But It may be used in all over the
world. Linguistic shift has determined that English is now
used in all walks of life. By using this language,
Globalization
is being originated.

7. Language ideologies are any set of beliefs about language
articulated by the users as a rationalization of perceived
language structure and use.

8. NATIONAL ARGUMENTS IN ACADEMIA
UNDER GLOBALIZATION
 Globalization is a process by which the people of the
world are unified into a single society and functioning
together.

9.  The dimensions of language