Malay Language As A Foreign Language And The Singapore’s Education System

Aishah Md Kassim

Abstract


The paper highlights the impact of the Singapore’s bilingual education policy on the Malaylanguage and how the language has been regarded a foreign language in the Singaporecontext given the interest of policy makers in the implementation of a new third languagepolicy. The growth can be hampered, however, to some concerns arising from the bilingualpolicy namely inadequate manpower, teaching materials, lack of resources and opportunitiesfor using the language.

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teaching of other languages, Malay language, Singapore, Southeast Asia

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