Singapore's E(Si)nglish-knowing bilingualism

Autor:	Siew Kheng Catherine Chua
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Government First language Dravidian languages Foreign language Public administration Language and Linguistics language.human_language Education Indonesian Language planning Political science Pedagogy language Singlish Language policy
Zdroj:	Current Issues in Language Planning. 12:125-145
ISSN:	1747-7506 1466-4208
DOI:	10.1080/14664208.2011.602816
Popis:	This paper discusses Singapore's bilingual policy and looks at how the government's top-down and structured language policy has transformed the country into an English-knowing society. Education and language-in-education planning in Singapore are linked closely to the country's economic development and nation-building process. This pair of planning activities has been instituted to sustain Singaporean economic development, to establish a sense of Singaporean identity and to ensure national survival and economic success. In comparison with English policies in Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia, language planning in Singapore has several characteristics that are tailored to the polity's unique linguistic and social situation. First, the policy embraces a foreign language that belongs to none of the indigenous ethnic groups at independence, but yet it is learned by all as a ‘neutral’ language for effective communication. Secondly, the bilingual policy introduced in 1966 was an island-wide language tr...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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