Publications

Publication details [#51439]

Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy D. and Imelda Santos Caleon. 2009. The language attitudes of bilingual youth in multilingual Singapore. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 30 (3) : 235–251.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | code-switching | language attitude | multilingualism | youth

Language as a subject

Chinese | English | Indian | Malay

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study explores how Chinese, Indian an Malay ethnicity and socio-economic status affect the language attitudes of Singaporean bilingual secondary school students towards (codeswitching between) their mother tongue and English.