Understanding Malay academic underachievement in Singapore through looking at language

• Main Author: Chin, Chain Yu
• Other Authors: Genaro Castro-Vázquez
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Communities, classes and races
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/41535
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Due to Singapore’s multi-racial characteristic, our bilingual policy has adopted English as lingua franca and Mandarin, Malay, Tamil as mother tongue for each racial group. This paper employs a deconstructivist approach to study Malay academic underachievement through uncovering the operations under...