Exploring Singlish as a pedagogical resource in the ELT classroom: implementing bidialectal pedagogy in Singapore

• Main Author: Lu, Luke
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Language::English; Singlish; Singapore
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161728
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Despite the prevalence of Singlish use among the Singaporean public, the vernacular is often seen as “bad English” without rules and grammar, or cast as an impediment to learning the standard register (Wee, 2005). This rhetoric is reproduced by the state (Chang, 2016), often involving the fear that...