Language ideologies, Chinese identities and imagined futures : perspectives from ethnic Chinese Singaporean university students

• Main Authors: Toh, Audry Lin Lin, Liu, Hong
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Sociology; Language Ideologies; Chinese Identities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/150359
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Since independence in 1965, the Singapore government has established a strongly mandated education policy with an English-first and official mother tongue Mandarin-second bilingualism. A majority of local-born Chinese have inclined toward a Western rather than Chinese identity, with some scholars re...