Singapore: A Linguistic Rojak
Singapore has a high rate of multilingualism in the generations now making up its elderly population. (i) Census data on literacy rate fails to capture the complexities of this multilingualism; (ii) Failure to account for spoken multilingualism; (iii) No recognition of non-official languages such as...
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| Format: | Student Research Poster |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83709 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42825 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Singapore has a high rate of multilingualism in the generations now making up its elderly population. (i) Census data on literacy rate fails to capture the complexities of this multilingualism; (ii) Failure to account for spoken multilingualism; (iii) No recognition of non-official languages such as Baba Malay and Chinese vernaculars. In this respect, there lacks an understanding of the intricacy of multilingualism of Singapore's elderly. [1st Award] |
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