English in Singapore
Subtitle: modernity and management
By: edited by Lisa Lim, Anne Pakir, and Lionel Wee
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9789971695361
Subjects: Study and teaching; Government policy; English language; Variation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: English in Singapore, policies and prospects / Lisa Lim, Anne Pakir, and Lionel Wee; title: Migrants and "mother tongues", extralinguistic forces in the ecology of English in Singapore / Lisa Lim; title: Singapore standard English revisited / Anthea Fraser Gupta; title: The speak good English movement, a web-user's perspective / Paul Bruthiaux; title: Hybridity in ways of speaking, the glocalization of English in Singapore / Lubna Alsagoff; title: Whose English? Language ownership in Singapore's English language debates / Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng ... [et al.]; title: Language and social capital in Singapore / Viniti Vaish ... [et al.]; title: Language policy and planning in Singaporean late modernity / Christopher Stroud and Lionel Wee; title: Problematizing the implementation of innovation in English language education in Singapore / Rani Rubdy; title: Sounding local and going global, current research and implications for pronunciation teaching / Ee-Ling Low; title: English as a lingua franca, negotiation Singapore's English language education / Anne Pakir; title: Researching English in Singapore, bibliographic sources.