Education and Globalization in Southeast Asia Issues and Challenges

30 Lubna Alsagoff a position where the standard of English advocated continues to be an exonormative one. In the current incarna ...

English in Singapore and Malaysia 31 population (Singapore Department of Statistics 2010c, p. 1,^2 Alsagoff 2012). Without a rea ...

32 Lubna Alsagoff such intractable challenges can be addressed in a globalized world of intensely compressed time and place. CON ...

English in Singapore and Malaysia 33 In Papers in South-East Asian linguistics No. 9: Language policy, language planning and soc ...

34 Lubna Alsagoff in Singapore, edited by E. Afendras and E.C.Y. Kuo, pp. 39–62. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1980. Le ...

English in Singapore and Malaysia 35 story/malaysia-moves-raise-english-standards-20130907#sthash.2caN6BSn. dpufMBMMBI> (acce ...

2 GLOBALIZATION, EDUCATIONAL LANGUAGE POLICY AND NATION-BUILDING IN MALAYSIA Tan Yao Sua and R. Santhiram INTRODUCTION Globaliza ...

Malaysia’s Globalization, Educational Language Policy and Nation-Building 37 corporations (TNCs) that use English as the in-hous ...

38 Tan Yao Sua and R. Santhiram global stage. The decision by the government to allow for the establishment of more private inst ...

Malaysia’s Globalization, Educational Language Policy and Nation-Building 39 has increasingly led to layers of diglossia on an i ...

40 Tan Yao Sua and R. Santhiram the pursuance of different educational pathways among the non-Malays. This widening of ethnic di ...

Malaysia’s Globalization, Educational Language Policy and Nation-Building 41 serve as the overarching link between the multiling ...

42 Tan Yao Sua and R. Santhiram the common language policy advocated by the state. With this conversion, only the vernacular pri ...

Malaysia’s Globalization, Educational Language Policy and Nation-Building 43 main feature of the global economy following the ad ...

44 Tan Yao Sua and R. Santhiram Malay elites who are pragmatic enough not to be overwhelmed by Malay linguistic nationalism that ...

Malaysia’s Globalization, Educational Language Policy and Nation-Building 45 to ensure better coordination of the country’s high ...

46 Tan Yao Sua and R. Santhiram groups of students, namely Primary Year One, Secondary Year One and first year pre-university (L ...

Malaysia’s Globalization, Educational Language Policy and Nation-Building 47 July 2009. This opposition reached new heights in e ...

48 Tan Yao Sua and R. Santhiram that the national language could become a working language as well as a language of knowledge pr ...

Malaysia’s Globalization, Educational Language Policy and Nation-Building 49 relationship bring about a stable diglossia that is ...