This study focuses on how the literacy practices in English of young
Cambodians shaped their individual and social perception as well as performance of
identity. It examines the English language as an increasingly dominant cultural and
linguistic presence in Cambodia and endeavours to fill the epistemic gap in what Gee
(2008, p. 1) has identified as the ‘other stuff’ of language. This other stuff includes
‘social relations, cultural models, power and politics, perspectives on experience,
values and attitudes, as well as things and places in the world’ that are introduced to
the local culture through English literacy and practices.