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Publication details [#58935]
Ng, Chin Leong Patrick. 2014. Mother tongue education in Singapore: concerns, issues and controversies. Current Issues in Language Planning 15 (4) : 361–375.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
The 1966 Singaporean English-knowing bilingual policy introduction obliged all Chinese students to study English as ‘First Language’ and Chinese language (CL) as ‘Mother Tongue Language’ in Singapore schools. Preserving additive bilingualism is difficult given English' broader political vigor, privilege and social weight and requires CL protection.