urrently in the world, English is known as the global language with a valuable linguistic asset that has seriously contributed to a country like China’s socio-economic development. The main purpose of this paper is to conduct a sociolinguistic investigation to show that English use as second medium of instruction in Côte d’Ivoire can be socioeconomically advantageous for this multilingual French-speaking country. In the trends of this analysis, our focus will be based on language policy and economics of language theories. From the results of this study, we retain that even if some scholars and linguists do not perceive such a language policy implementation as useful in this country, English language use as second medium of instruction appears as a relevant linguistic asset that can allow this country to benefit from important advantages at diplomatic, educational and economic levels.