This article examines English language choice amidst dynamic social and linguistic change contexts in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Kazakhstan has formally committed to an official trilingual language policy – Kazakh, Russian, and English. In comparison, Kyrgyzstan has a dual language policy – Kyrgyz and Russian. However, its Ministry of Education and Science has demonstrated an informal commitment to developing English competency in-country through various English language teaching/learning initiatives. Using data collected between 2014 and 2017 in both countries, this article explores how English language teaching/learning is positioned differently in these two Central Asian Republics, while also aiming to understand how participants’ language choices were informed both by the particularities of their contexts and the intersectional nature of language choice.

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哈萨克斯坦和吉尔吉斯斯坦的英语语言选择

本文研究了哈萨克斯坦和吉尔吉斯斯坦动态社会和语言变化背景下的英语语言选择。哈萨克斯坦已正式承诺实施一种官方的三语语言政策——哈萨克语、俄语和英语。相比之下，吉尔吉斯斯坦实行双重语言政策——吉尔吉斯语和俄语。然而，其教育和科学部已通过各种英语教学/学习计划表现出对在国内发展英语能力的非正式承诺。本文利用两国 2014 年至 2017 年间收集的数据，探讨了这两个中亚共和国的英语教学/学习定位如何不同，