“Amma” or “Mommy” : the role of mothers in facilitating intergenerational language transmission in the singaporean tamil community

• Main Author: Nageswaran Naganandhini
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48052
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper aims to obtain an overview of the language use patterns and language attitudes of Singapore Tamil mothers with or in the presence of their children. The Tamil language has been observed to be rapidly losing ground in Singapore with the dominance of English and there have been efforts on t...