Language Education is a branch of Linguistics that deals with the teaching and learning of a language.
Since First Language (FL) is learned naturally without any assistance of instruction, generally, Language Education pertains learning the Second Language (SL) or foreign language.
With the changing world in terms of communication, the need for Language Education is evident as influenced by globalization. Since connecting with other nations cannot be avoided, the call for multilingualism is inevitable.
Therefore, many countries such as Japan (Kubota, 1998) and China (Kirkpatrick & Zhichang, 2002) create education policies to teach at least one foreign language at primary and secondary school level. However, some countries such as India, Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines use a second official language in their governing system. According to GAO (2010) many Chinese people are giving enormous importance to foreign language learning, especially learning English Language.
This subject encompasses description of teaching, processes, techniques and analyses of learning and teaching the language.
