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

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Nageswaran Naganandhini.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Stefanie Stadler
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2012
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities::Language
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94060; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7793
• المؤسسة: 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...