Education and Globalization in Southeast Asia Issues and Challenges

10 Lee Hock Guan corporatization and the Higher Education Student Loan Fund”. Perhaps the most important change in the governmen ...

Introduction 11 background, and so on. Conversely, on the other end of the spectrum the private schools are poorly funded, teach ...

12 Lee Hock Guan especially the decentralization policy, to address the various deep-seated problems in the education sector. Am ...

Introduction 13 Johnson, Anne. “The Rise of English: The Language of Globalization in China and the European Union”. Macalester ...

1 ENGLISH IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA Common Roots, Different Fruits Lubna Alsagoff INTRODUCTION Singapore and Malaysia share a co ...

English in Singapore and Malaysia 15 taken significantly divergent paths, resulting in very different outcomes or “fruits”. The ...

16 Lubna Alsagoff — English as well as the three languages seen as representing the largest ethnic groups, namely, Malay for the ...

English in Singapore and Malaysia 17 surprisingly was much reduced and primarily ceremonial, even though it continued to be reco ...

18 Lubna Alsagoff knowledge and use of English plus one other official language. In English- medium schools, students took a sec ...

English in Singapore and Malaysia 19 change in the way English was spoken and used among the population. Increasingly, with the ...

20 Lubna Alsagoff This pragmatic and economically driven attitude towards English in Singapore clearly constructs it in terms of ...

English in Singapore and Malaysia 21 Under British colonial rule, whether by divisive decree or laissez faire rule, Malay, Chine ...

22 Lubna Alsagoff intention of making Bahasa Malaysia the national language of the country while preserving and sustaining the g ...

English in Singapore and Malaysia 23 and in Sarawak, English retained its status as an official language until In 1969, riots b ...

24 Lubna Alsagoff Institution Act which allowed the use of English in dual university programmes affiliated with overseas instit ...

English in Singapore and Malaysia 25 The switch back to Malay raised fresh concerns, within the business community as well as am ...

26 Lubna Alsagoff of Malay as this unifying language, argued on the basis of its historical roots as the true indigenous languag ...

English in Singapore and Malaysia 27 and languages was achieved through an ideology of instrumentalism in language management in ...

28 Lubna Alsagoff policies completed the argument, in a sense, of this link between language and identity. But as would be expec ...

English in Singapore and Malaysia 29 Gill (2005) writes, the unplanned aspects of Malaysia’s language policy mean that English s ...