Are Chinese Singaporean university students willing to speak in Mandarin?

• Main Author: Ong, Wei Jie
• Other Authors: Tan Ying Ying
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Bilingualism::Singapore
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138329
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Despite the Singapore government’s rhetoric that the speaking of Mandarin provides cultural and economic benefits to the ethnic Chinese in Singapore, there have been trends of dwindling levels of use of Mandarin at home and declining proficiency levels amongst the ethnic Chinese. This paper investig...