Language, society, and education in Singapore : issues and trends / edited by S. Gopinathan ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gopinathan, Saravanan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singapore--Languages.

Singapore.

Language and languages.

Singapore--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Education--Singapore.

Education.

Physical Description:

vi, 407 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Times Academic Press, 1998.

Summary:

Education and language scholars look at the interrelationships between developments in the three dimensions. They deal not only with English, but the Singapore's other official languages of Chinese, Malay, and Tamil; draw on empirical research of the past decade; encompass a range of perspectives, including classroom pedagogy; and deal with the language need both of the school-going population and working adults. The 16 essays of the 1994 edition have grown to 20, but of those, eight are completely new. There is still no index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contents:

Part I Language in Singapore

Chapter 1 Language Policy Changes 1979-1997: Politics and Pedagogy / S. Gopinathan 19

Chapter 2 Theoretical Ideals and Ideologized Reality in Language Planning / Tan Su Hwi 45

Chapter 3 English in Singapore: The Codification of Competing Norms / Anne Pakir 63

Chapter 4 Language Shift and Cultural Implications in Singapore / Hugo Baetens Beardsmore 85

Chapter 5 Linguistic Realities and Pedagogical Practices in Singapore: Another Perspective / Joyce James 99

Part II Language in Society

Chapter 6 A Framework for the Analysis of Singapore English / Anthea Fraser Gupta 119

Chapter 7 Language Use and Language Attitudes in the Singapore Chinese Community / Xu Daming, Chew Cheng Hai, Chen Songcen 133

Chapter 8 Language Maintenance and Language Shift in the Tamil-English Community / Vanithamani Saravanan 155

Chapter 9 Malay Language Issues and Trends / Kamsiah Abdullah, Bibi Jan Mohd Ayyub 179

Chapter 10 The Admission Interview: Strategies of Alignment / Phyllis G. L. Chew 191

Chapter 11 Responses to the Language of Singaporean Literature in English / Ismail S. Talib 203

Part III Language in Education

Chapter 12 The English Language Curriculum in Perspective: Exogenous Influences and Indigenization / Ho Wah Kam 221

Chapter 13 Moving from "Common-sense Knowledge" to "Educational Knowledge" / Joseph Foley 245

Chapter 14 Language Teaching Pedagogies and Cultural Scripts: The Singapore Primary Classroom / Maha Sripathy 269

Chapter 15 Is Singlish Grammatical?: Two Notions of Grammaticality / Ho Chee Lick, Lubna Alsagoff 281

Chapter 16 Acquiring English Literacy in Singapore Classrooms / Cheah Yin Mee 291

Chapter 17 Reading and Writing Instruction in Singapore Secondary Schools / Susheela A. Varghese 307

Chapter 18 Meaning-constructing Strategies in English and Chinese Writing: Effective versus Ineffective Writing / Ruth Wong Yeang Lam 321

Chapter 19 The Teaching of the Chinese Language in Singapore / Ang Beng Choo 335

Chapter 20 The Use of Computers in the Teaching of Writing / Renu Gupta, Robert Hvitfeldt, Vanithamani Saravanan 353.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ([269]-402).

ISBN:

9812101217

OCLC:

40191553