ABSTRACT For at least the last three decades, English has been popularised as a foreign language in Cambodia. However, despite the continued changes in the socio-economic and geopolitical landscape in the region that shape how English is used intranationally and internationally in Cambodia, little is known about how Cambodian teachers conceptualise and approach English in response to such changes. Working on the premise of World Englishes, this study investigates a small group of Cambodian English teachers’ cognition about English varieties and their reported practice. Using qualitative interviews, the analysis informed by critical theory arrives at two interconnected themes: teachers’ negative attitudes towards non-Inner Circle English varieties; and teachers’ conceptions of non-nativeness as a discourse of deficit. These findings are discussed as limiting the teachers’ linguistic, personal, and professional identities and growth, and a radical shift in conceptualisations about English and English language teaching in this context is called for.

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柬埔寨教师对世界英语的认知与英语教学的批判性分析

摘要 至少在过去的三十年里，英语作为外语在柬埔寨流行开来。然而，尽管该地区社会经济和地缘政治格局的持续变化影响了柬埔寨在国内和国际上使用英语的方式，但人们对柬埔寨教师如何概念化和处理英语以应对这些变化知之甚少。本研究以世界英语为前提，调查了一小群柬埔寨英语教师对英语变体的认知及其报告的实践。使用定性访谈，批判理论的分析得出两个相互关联的主题：教师对非 Inner Circle 英语变体的消极态度；以及教师将非本土性作为一种赤字话语的概念。