Wherever Kathryn Kuhlman went, people who once thought miracles impossible learned to believe in miracles.īefore she died, she asked that only Jamie Buckingham be allowed to write her official biography-withholding nothing. Bill Johnson, Bethel Church, Redding, CAĪuthor of Born for Significance and The Way of Life May we be forever marked as people for God's glory, and live inspired by this Daughter of Destiny.
This is the power of the gospel, burning in us, yearning to be released. Based on a new questionnaire study of 692 university students, we explore the tension between English and Arabic, the prominence of English, the increasing use of English as a home language, and the emergence of a new variety of English: ‘Gulf English’.Kathryn's life helped to reestablish a value that has not been the norm for a long time.
It occurs in its standardized varieties, but also in several non-standard forms, as foreign labor is recruited from places formerly under British or American influence. English occupies a special role in this multilingual texture, as it is used as a foreign language, a second language, and a lingua franca. A population of no less than 85 per cent of highly transient foreigners strongly impacts the local linguistic landscape, with many languages competing in the public sphere. Foreign labor and investment play a central role in this development, yielding a sharp imbalance between the Emirati and the foreign population. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has witnessed an unprecedented economic and cultural development since its foundation in 1971. This chapter looks into the agents, processes and causes of the rise of English in formal education in the UAE and its struggle to survive the current political climate.
English language teachers/experts and institutions have long been welcomed to the UAE to empower the nation in its quest of constructing a knowledge-based economy and becoming a regional and world leader in education, although recently with the advent of the Arab Spring, a discontent with the English language and its hegemony at the expense of the Arabic language has been evident in the region. In an effort to highlight the multitude of local and global forces that can facilitate and shape Foreign Language Learning Policy, this chapter provides a historical exploration of foreign language policies in a rather idiosyncratic context, that of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a country where the indigenous locals are the minority and where the rulers of the country have embraced the global as a means to empower the local and usher the country in an era of modernisation and globalisation.
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