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Assumptions behind Singapore's Language-in-Education Policy: Implications for Language Planning and Second Language Acquisition
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Dixon, L. Quentin – Language Policy, 2009
Singapore's officially bilingual education policy, in which the majority of children are schooled through a non-native medium with their "Mother Tongue" (an ethnic heritage language that is not necessarily spoken in the home) as a single school subject only, has resulted in dramatic language shifts in the population and high academic…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries