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The development of Malay language in education planning: Successes and challenges in reaching 2065
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Book chapter
Citation
Mohamed Aidil Subhan. (2019). The development of Malay language in education planning: Successes and challenges in reaching 2065. In C. L. Tan, K. W. Choong, A Ra Sivakumaran, & Mohamed Aidil Subhan (Eds.), Innovative practice, practice innovation: Re-envisioning mother tongue languages education in Singapore (pp. 9-16). National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University; NTU-SCCL Press.
Abstract
Malay Language has played an integral part not only in the lives of the Malay community in Singapore but also that of the larger Singaporean community. Among the roles played since Singapore’s independence in 1965 was as language of unity among the various races during the early years, as a national language and one of the four official languages as indicated in the Singapore Constitution, and now more as a cultural repository in an English-knowing bilingual landscape. This paper is based on the writer’s PhD thesis that audited Malay Language planning in Singapore’s bilingual system since 1965. Using Cooper’s Framework of language status planning, language corpus planning, and language acquisition planning, the thesis set out to analyze the language’s development through 50 years of independence. This paper will not only emphasize the successes of Malay language in education planning (SG50), but also to review the present success and preview the challenges that will be faced leading up to 2065 (SG100).
Date Issued
2019
Publisher
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NIE NTU), Singapore
Singapore Centre for Chinese Language Limited, NTU