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Publication details [#32783]
Kramer Dahl, Anneliese. 2003. Reading the "Singlish Debate": Construction of a Crisis of Language Standards and Language Teaching in Singapore. Journal of Language, Identity & Education 2 (3) : 159–190. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
1534-8458
Annotation
This paper examines how popular media debates about the role of grammar, proceeding in terms of a discourse of crisis and falling standards, construct Standard English and the local vernacular in Singapore, as well as English-language teachers and the role of grammar teaching.