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Publication details [#65285]

Tupas, T. Ruanni F. 2018. Singlish in the classroom: is Singapore ready for additive bidialectalism? International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 21 (8) : 982–993.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | dialect1 | language of instruction | language use | multilingualism

Language as a subject

English | Singlish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article examines the notion of additive bidialectalism and claims that fostering it in dialectally varied English language classrooms like in Singapore can help handle the ‘problem’ of non-standard language use in these contexts.