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Direct linkSun, Baoqi; Loh, Chin Ee; Bakar, Mukhlis Abu; Vaish, Viniti – Language Policy, 2023
This study investigated and compared family language policies (FLPs) from the perspectives of two groups of Singaporean bilingual children: 2,971 English-Chinese and 780 English-Malay children (aged 9-11 years). It also examined how different FLP components -- namely, language beliefs, practices, and management -- influenced their leisure reading…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Recreational Reading, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Vaish, Viniti – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
This paper applies the theories of linguistic distance and translanguaging to analyse the pedagogy of teaching vocabulary and grammar in English to Malay-English bilinguals who are struggling to read in English. More specifically the paper explores how the teacher tried to create cross-linguistic transfer and how the students display…
Descriptors: Indonesian Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Vaish, Viniti – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
This paper is about implementing a translanguaging approach to teach reading skills in English with simultaneous bilinguals who speak substantial amounts of Malay and Chinese at home. This new pedagogical approach was tried out with 2nd graders in 3 schools in Singapore: instead of the typical immersion approach to teaching reading skills in…
Descriptors: Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Vaish, Viniti – Classroom Discourse, 2019
What are the challenges faced by a research team in implementing translanguaging pedagogy in a multilingual classroom? What implications does this research project have for researchers in other geographies and other languages? This paper answers these questions on the basis of 7 English reading classes and interviews of teachers and students…
Descriptors: Barriers, Program Implementation, Low Achievement, Translation
Vaish, Viniti; Roslan, Mardiana – World Englishes, 2011
This paper explores the way a group of pre-teens in Singapore use Malay, Chinese and English to perform identity. It is based on one case study of a Malay girl, Syafiqah, from a larger project called The Sociolinguistic Survey of Singapore 2006, and does not claim to be generalizable. The data are transcripts of recordings made on the speech…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Identification, English, Mandarin Chinese
Vaish, Viniti – World Englishes, 2008
This paper reports on an investigation of the effect of religion on language use in Singapore. Data come from the Sociolinguistic Survey of Singapore, 2006, a large-scale language survey linked to follow-up studies. The conceptual framework was based upon Castells' idea of a new social order in the network society; the main research questions were…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Ethnic Groups, Religion, Foreign Countries
