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English language education and educational policy in Singapore

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https://hdl.handle.net/10497/28745
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Book Chapter
Citation
Bokhorst-Heng, W. D., & Silver, R. E. (2024). English language education and educational policy in Singapore. In A. J. Moody (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes (pp. 541–556). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192855282.013.29
Author
Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy D.
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Silver, Rita 
Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of English language education and policy in Singapore in relation to a world Englishes perspective, considering policy, practices, and ideologies. It takes a critical view of Kachru’s model as applied to Singapore English(es), noting the complexities of internal variation among Singapore’s English users, and how Singapore has moved from the Outer to the Inner Circle and thus demands a more nuanced framework. Analysis takes a discourse-analytic approach, anchored in Ruiz’s conceptualization of language orientations and applied to Singapore’s secondary English language syllabus. It considers how these orientations frame the narrative of policy, are operationalized into learning targets, and inform teacher practice. To understand further the position of English and Englishes in Singapore, the chapter draws on the Douglas Fir Group’s framework for second language acquisition (SLA), considering the mutually interactive forces of the macro (ideological), meso- (sociocultural/institutional) and micro-levels (human social interaction) involved in language-learning contexts.

Keywords
  • English language syll...

  • English language educ...

  • Language orientations...

  • Singapore

  • Quadrilingual

  • 21st-century competen...

  • Douglas Fir Group

  • Unequal Englishes

Date Issued
2024
ISBN
9780191945410 (online)
9780192855282 (print)
Publisher
Oxford University Press
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192855282.013.29
Description
The open access publication is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192855282.013.29
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