Linguistic Discrimination and Global Englishes: Toward Equity and Justice in English Language Education

Linguistic Discrimination and Global Englishes: Towards Equity and Justice in English Language Education interrogates the complex ways in which linguistic hierarchies, native-speakerism, and underlying institutional ideologies govern the landscape of modern pedagogy.Informed by Global Englishes research as well as raciolinguistic and linguistic human rights perspectives, this book re-envisions linguistic discrimination as an entrenched structural and institutionalised phenomenon rather than isolated prejudice, utilising raciolinguistic lenses to expose native-speakerism as a racialised hierarchy. Across 12 chapters, the volume systematises the critique by operationalising these theoretical insights, moving from conceptual foundations to critical examinations of hiring practices, assessment regimes, English-Medium Instruction (EMI), curricular materials, and the emerging challenges of AI-mediated governance in codifying linguistic standards.Through the synthesis of these domains, from a