Investigating the relationship between language and ethnic identity construction amongst youth in the Singaporean-Tamil speech community

• Main Author: Sathrin Kaur Saggi Karamjit Singh
• Other Authors: Kingsley Bolton
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69648
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Singapore’s bilingual education policy has been shaped largely by the government’s belief that the mother tongue languages (mainly Mandarin, Malay and Tamil) are essential ‘cultural ballast’ to give Singaporean youth a firm grounding in Asian values at a time of increasing globalisation. However, gi...