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Originally Posted by arij98  They say that Arabic and French are enough and there is no need for another foreign language. |
And they may well be right for their own circumstances. Perhaps one approach worth trying might be to talk about expanding options. If they stay where they are, and follow the course in life they currently expect to, then Arabic and French may well suffice. But what if they decide to try something new, or if an unexpected opportunity arises? Wouldn't it be great to have the ability to say "I can seize this opportunity right away", rather than "I wish I'd learned English when I had the chance".
This is not anglocentrism, since I can easily sympathise with the view your students are expressing. It just seems to me that perhaps an argument like the one above might make at least some of them reconsider.