Multilingual Singapore

Author : Ritu Jain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000386929

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Multilingual Singapore by Ritu Jain Pdf

This volume brings together researchers whose analysis and insights provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Singapore’s rich linguistic diversity. Applying a combination of descriptive, empirical, and theoretical approaches, the authors investigate not only official languages such as English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, but also minority languages such as the Chinese vernaculars and South Asian and Austronesian languages. The chapters in this volume trace the historical development, contemporary status, and functions of these languages, as well as potential scenarios for the future. Exploring the tension between language policies and linguistic realities in Singapore, the contributions in this volume capture the shifting educational, political, and societal priorities of the community through its past and contemporary present.

Author : John Hajek,Yvette Slaughter
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783092512

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Challenging the Monolingual Mindset by John Hajek,Yvette Slaughter Pdf

This volume challenges the monolingual mindset by highlighting how language-related issues surround us in many different ways, and explores the tensions that can develop in managing and understanding multilingualism. The book features analysis and discussion on the use of languages across a range of contexts, including post-migration settlement, policy, education, language contact and intercultural communication.

Author : Evangelos A. Afendras,Eddie C. Y. Kuo
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9971690160

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Language and Society in Singapore by Evangelos A. Afendras,Eddie C. Y. Kuo Pdf

Author : Peter Siemund,Jakob R.E. Leimgruber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429873911

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Multilingual Global Cities by Peter Siemund,Jakob R.E. Leimgruber Pdf

This volume sets out to investigate the linguistic ecologies of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai, with chapters that combine empirical and theoretical approaches to the sociolinguistics of multilingualism. One important feature of this publication is that the five parts of the collection deal with such key issues as the historical dimension, language policies and language planning, contemporary societal multilingualism, multilingual language acquisition, and the localized Englishes of global cities. The first four sections of the volume provide a multi-levelled and finely-detailed description of multilingual diversity of three global cities, while the final section discusses postcolonial Englishes in the context of multilingual language acquisition and language contact.

Author : Indika Liyanage,Tony Walker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030143862

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Multilingual Education Yearbook 2019 by Indika Liyanage,Tony Walker Pdf

This book offers essential insights into the challenges and complexities surrounding the medium of instruction (MOI), its impact on all languages and stakeholders in multilingual contexts, educational processes, developments and outcomes. MOI has been a prominent topic in recent debates on the role of languages in education in multilingual contexts, partly because prioritizing one language over others as the medium of instruction has a profound impact on all languages and stakeholders in multilingual contexts. These include, to name but a few, (language) teachers, teacher educators, students, and policymakers, as well as industries and enterprises built around the needs and expectations of these stakeholders. This book presents high-quality empirical research on education in multilingual societies. It highlights research findings that, in addition to providing descriptions of language learning, development and use in language contact and multilingual contexts, will help shape future language education policy and practices in multilingual societies.

Author : Viniti Vaish
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811510885

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Translanguaging in Multilingual English Classrooms by Viniti Vaish Pdf

This book is the first to apply the theory of translanguaging to multilingual classrooms in an Asian context, offering strategies for teaching specific grammatical and comprehension skills to students struggling to read in English. It also enriches the methodology of coding bilingual transcripts with ideas resulting from a detailed analysis of a large and rich data set. Lastly, the author discusses growth areas in the emerging field of translanguaging and challenges for teachers implementing a translanguaging approach in a superdiverse classroom.

Author : Anthea Fraser Gupta
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853592293

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The Step-tongue by Anthea Fraser Gupta Pdf

In Singapore, multilingualism is the norm, and English (often the local variety) is widely acquired and used. This book examines the social and historical context of children's English in Singapore, and traces the development of four Singaporean children who have English as a native language. The implications for education and speech therapy are discussed.

Author : Eddie C. Y. Kuo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language planning
ISBN : UOM:39015028768367

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Language Management in a Multilingual State by Eddie C. Y. Kuo Pdf

Author : Mark Feng Teng,Wang Lixun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350099678

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Identity, Motivation, and Multilingual Education in Asian Contexts by Mark Feng Teng,Wang Lixun Pdf

This book investigates how learners' motivations and identities are constructed in the process of learning and using multiple languages in Asian contexts. It presents examples of multilingual contexts in different parts of Asia and illustrates various achievements and challenges associated with multilingual education. Drawing on recent theoretical developments regarding learners' motivations and identities in language learning-related research, this book uncovers learners' motivations that underlie their decisions of learning multiple languages in Asian contexts. Through empirical studies, the authors offer conceptual interpretations on emerging concepts such as dual-motivation system, motivation dynamics, motivational transformation episodes, and hierarchies of identities. In addition to being highly relevant to researchers of applied linguistics, this book is a valuable reference for every university and college library that serves a faculty or school of education.

Author : Andreas Bonnet,Peter Siemund
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263858

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Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms by Andreas Bonnet,Peter Siemund Pdf

This volume challenges traditional approaches to foreign language education and proposes to redefine them in our age of international migration and globalization. Foreign language classrooms are no longer populated by monolingual students, but increasingly by multilingual students with highly diverse language backgrounds. This necessitates a new understanding of foreign language learning and teaching. The volume brings together an international group of researchers of high caliber who specialize in third language acquisition, teaching English as an additional language, and multilingual education. In addition to topical overview articles on the multilingual policies pursued in Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia, as well as several contributions dealing with theoretical issues regarding multilingualism and plurilingualism, the volume also offers cutting edge case studies from multilingual acquisition research and foreign language classroom practice. Throughout the volume, multilingualism is interpreted as a valuable resource that can facilitate language education provided it is harnessed in appropriate conditions.

Author : Wenhao Tao,Indika Liyanage
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030412111

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Multilingual Education Yearbook 2020 by Wenhao Tao,Indika Liyanage Pdf

This book focuses on the challenges of teaching in diversely multilingual classrooms, discussing how these challenges and complexities interact in the preparation of teachers (language & content areas) in and for multilingual settings, and how they impact on educational processes, developments, and outcomes. Teacher education in multilingual contexts is a key topic and occupies an important position in efforts to improve educational outcomes and quality for all stakeholders. It is seen as essential for competitive participation in global economic activity and for providing opportunities to enjoy the benefits of increased prosperity. Teacher education is generally expected to address both the demand for multilingualism and the challenges of teaching in diversely multilingual classrooms, which are important foci at policy and institutional levels. For example, the demand for quality outcomes is manifested in state-administered standards and performance cultures that regulate entry and practices, and poses ethical and pedagogic dilemmas for teachers. This book presents high-quality empirical research on education in multilingual societies, highlighting findings that, in addition to providing descriptions of language learning, development, and use in language contact and multilingual contexts, will help shape future language education policy and practices in multilingual societies.

Author : Li Wei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317638988

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Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide by Li Wei Pdf

In this volume, Li Wei brings together contributions from well-known and emerging scholars in socio- and anthropological linguistics working on different linguistic and communicative aspects of the Chinese diaspora. The project examines the Chinese diasporic experience from a global, comparative perspective, with a particular focus on transnational links, and local social and multilingual realities. Contributors address the emergence of new forms of Chinese in multilingual contexts, family language policy and practice, language socialization and identity development, multilingual creativity, linguistic attitudes and ideologies, and heritage language maintenance, loss, learning and re-learning. The studies are based on empirical observations and investigations in Chinese communities across the globe, including well-researched (from a sociolinguistic perspective) areas such as North America, Western Europe and Australia, as well as under-explored and under-represented areas such as Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, and the Middle East; the volume also includes detailed ethnographic accounts representing regions with a high concentration of Chinese migration such as Southeast Asia. This volume not only will allow sociolinguists to investigate the link between linguistic phenomena in specific communities and wider socio-cultural processes, but also invites an open dialogue with researchers from other disciplines who are working on migration, diaspora and identity, and those studying other language-based diasporic communities such as the Russian diaspora, the Spanish diaspora, the Portuguese diaspora, and the Arabic diaspora.

Author : Jean-Jacques Weber
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783092017

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Flexible Multilingual Education by Jean-Jacques Weber Pdf

This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children’s needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon children’s actual home resources and provides access to both the local and global languages that students need for their educational and professional success. It argues that, as more and more children grow up multilingually in our globalised world, there is a need for more nuanced multilingual solutions in language-in-education policies. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education – rather than mother tongue education – is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today’s world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.

Author : Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Multilingual persons
ISBN : 3631596375

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Multilingual Norms by Madalena Cruz-Ferreira Pdf

Multilinguals are not multiple monolinguals. Yet multilingual assessment proceeds through monolingual norms, as if fair conclusions were possible in the absence of fair comparison. In addition, multilingualism concerns what people do with language, not what languages do to people. Yet research focus remains on multilinguals' languages, as if languages existed despite their users. This book redresses these paradoxes. Multilingual scholars, teachers and speech-language clinicians from Europe, Asia, Australia and the US contribute the first studies dedicated to multilingual norms, those found in real-life multilingual development, assessment and use. Readership includes educators, clinicians, decision-makers and researchers interested in multilingualism.

Author : Sihua Liang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319126197

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Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China by Sihua Liang Pdf

These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning. This linguistic ethnographic study of language attitudes and identities in contemporary China in the era of multilingualism provides a comprehensive and critical review of the state of the art in the field of language-attitude research, and situates attitudes towards Chinese regional dialects in their social, historical as well as local contexts. The role of language policies and the links between the interactional phenomena and other contextual factors are investigated through the multi-level analysis of linguistic ethnographic data. This study captures the long-term language socialisation process and the moment-to-moment construction of language attitudes at a level of detail that is rarely seen. The narrative is presented in a highly readable style, without compromising the theoretical sophistication and sociolinguistic complexities.