The Effectiveness of Globish in Facilitating Business Oral Interpersonal Communication between Saudi Businessmen and Native Speakers

Abstract

This paper investigates the effectiveness of Globish in facilitating business oral interpersonal communication between Saudi businesspersons and native speakers and it exposes the constraints hindering mutual comprehension between native and nonnative speakers. The study aims at accentuating the suitability and role of Globish, which is a simplified version of English that uses only the most common English words and phrases, in facilitating oral communication among Saudi businesspersons who do not master English proficiently. Moreover, it clarifies the simplicity and practicality of Globish in real life communicative settings. It shows the main features, date back of Globish evolution, advantages and disadvantages of Globish, peculiarities of Globish, ingredients of Globish and techniques of using Globish. It demonstrates the disagreement about the notion of Standard English, especially about linguistic levels. Furthermore, the study explains the importance of speaking English to Saudi business persons. In addition, it illustrates a vast number of intercultural communication principles.  It exposes that Saudi learners are highly motivated to learn and speak English but they lack practice time in real life settings. The study shows that  Globish can be useful to Saudi business persons because it meets their communicative needs in various social communicative situations as  telephoning, messaging, booking flights, practicing at airport, making appointments, organizing meetings, agenda setting, interrupting, agreeing negotiations, making tricky conversations, resolving difficulties, asking for a pay rise, tackling clients, disagreeing and  business condensed presentation.