The Step-tongue: Children's English in SingaporeMultilingual Matters, 1994 - 229 頁 In Singapore, multilingualism is the norm, and English (often the local variety) is widely acquired and used. This book examines the social and historical context of children's English in Singapore, and traces the development of four Singaporean children who have English as a native language. The implications for education and speech therapy are discussed. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Acquiring Singapore Colloquial English | 52 |
Acquisition of Interrogatives | 84 |
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Abudarham adult assessment Aunty Baba Malay basilect Bickerton bilingual boys Cantonese Care Bear centres child creole cultural declarative position dialect diglossia Diglossic EB's EG's embedded interrogatives English and Mandarin English-medium schools ethnic Eurasian example experiential verb families Figure formula fronting function groups Gupta Hokkien home language Indian kindergarten Kwan-Terry language therapy learning Lee Kuan Yew lingua franca linguistic literacy main clause majority Malay minority monolingual mother tongue multilingual Mummy native speakers norm normal nursery parents pattern Platt polar interrogatives population pragmatic particles pre-school primary school proficiency PSLE question racial referred school languages second language seen session Singapore English Singaporeans social Speak Mandarin Speak Mandarin Campaign speech and language Standard English StdE Straits Settlements structure Table Tamil teachers teaching Teochew therapists varieties of Chinese variety of English wh-word x-interrogatives YG's