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Direct linkLee, Daphnee Hui Lin – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This paper examines the unintended consequences of state language policy and planning (LPP) that adopt subtractive approaches on teachers' subsequent receptivity to policy fine-tuning. A comparative approach is adopted in this statistical study of two strategic contexts, where the influence of the world's two leading languages--English and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Language Planning, Native Language
Ng, Chin Leong Patrick – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
In 1966, the Singapore Government implemented the English-knowing bilingual policy which made it mandatory for all Chinese students to study English as a "First Language" and the Chinese language (CL) as a "Mother Tongue Language" in Singapore schools. Using key literature relevant to Singapore's bilingual educational policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Chinese
Peer reviewedHarrison, Godfrey – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1980
Outlines the current language situation in Singapore in relation to demographic and political changes. Reasons are given for the preeminence of English and the push for Mandarin Chinese as the official language. The role of Premier Lee Kwan Yew and the media in propounding the Republic language policy is discussed. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Language Attitudes, Language Planning
Peer reviewedKuo, Eddie C. Y.; Jernudd, Bjorn H. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1993
Shows how both macro- and microsociolinguistic perspectives are necessary to explain national language management. Macrolevel language planning is motivated by tasks of national consolidation by the state, notably in Singapore's case tasks of socio-ethnic integration and economic development. Microlevel language management pertains to individuals'…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Download full textLowenberg, Peter – 1985
Malay's long use as the dominant linga franca throughout modern Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore is partly responsible for its current status as the national language of all three countries. However, political and economic developments during and since the colonial era have created sociolinguistic contexts, motives, and results of the language's…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Comparative Analysis, Developing Nations, Diachronic Linguistics
Clankie, Shawn M. – 2000
This paper examines efforts to save rapidly declining indigenous languages around the world. The entire process of language preservation and revitalization is a massive undertaking that requires immense long-term planning and support. These problems extend well beyond the linguistic concerns of the language itself. Language policy is inherently…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism, Cultural Pluralism
