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Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
International Journal for Research in Education
الانجليزيات المتباينـة؛ علاقات القوة؛ الكويت؛ معلم/ معلمة لغة انجليزية كويتية (KELT)؛ التحدث باللهجة الأصلية للّغة الانجليزية؛ الإثنوغرافيـة الذاتيــة
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Shared Epiphanies Of My Constantly Challenged Linguistic Membership, Fajer M. Bin Rashed
Shared Epiphanies Of My Constantly Challenged Linguistic Membership, Fajer M. Bin Rashed
International Journal for Research in Education
The pluralization of English has enabled the use of its varieties in cultural contexts that are not traditionally associated with the language. Yet, the inequality of Englishes remains a main characteristic of globalizing and localizing the language. The spread of English use in Kuwait was a result of establishing reconfigured imperial relations during the British protectorate era. Mediated by language ideologies, the English language has ‘settled’ Kuwait’s local linguistic ecology, and its spread remains sustained by the imposition of colonial practices and ideologies through contemporary processes of capitalist globalization. I argue that the pluralization of English in Kuwait’s nuanced experience …