The implementation of Malay language education policy and the linguistic landscape in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Soon, Chiow Thai, Loi, Chek Kim
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25032/7/The%20implementation%20of%20Malay%20language%20education%20policy%20and%20the%20linguistic%20landscape%20in%20Malaysia.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25032/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

This ethnographic research uses the applied linguistic landscape of Ben-Rafael (2009) to examine the choices of language practice (Spolsky, 2009) reflected through 459 Romanised names of the company on an island in Malaysia named Labuan. One of the outcomes of this study shows Malaysians are basical...