Multilingualism and language mixing among Singapore university students
This chapter discusses the dynamics of language mixing among Singaporean university students and how such mixing practices are an integral part of students’ linguistic behaviour at university, both inside and outside formal classroom contexts. The study draws on a large-scale language survey of unde...
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| description | This chapter discusses the dynamics of language mixing among Singaporean university students and how such mixing practices are an integral part of students’ linguistic behaviour at university, both inside and outside formal classroom contexts. The study draws on a large-scale language survey of undergraduate students, as well as qualitative language data collected at one of Singapore’s leading universities. The findings reveal how Singaporean students are able to shift between various languages inside and outside their classrooms, and may also have relevance for a range of other multilingual contexts, particularly in relation to language use in higher education. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1385812020-05-12T03:07:26Z Multilingualism and language mixing among Singapore university students Bolton, Kingsley Botha, Werner Liyanage, Indika Walker, Tony School of Humanities Humanities::Language::English Humanities::Linguistics English-medium Education Code-mixing This chapter discusses the dynamics of language mixing among Singaporean university students and how such mixing practices are an integral part of students’ linguistic behaviour at university, both inside and outside formal classroom contexts. The study draws on a large-scale language survey of undergraduate students, as well as qualitative language data collected at one of Singapore’s leading universities. The findings reveal how Singaporean students are able to shift between various languages inside and outside their classrooms, and may also have relevance for a range of other multilingual contexts, particularly in relation to language use in higher education. Accepted version 2020-05-09T14:16:51Z 2020-05-09T14:16:51Z 2019 Book Chapter Bolton, K., & Botha, W. (2019). Multilingualism and language mixing among Singapore university students. In I. Liyanage, & T. Walker (Eds.), Multilingual education yearbook 2019 : media of instruction & multilingual settings (pp. 43-61). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-14386-2_3 978-3-030-14385-5 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138581 10.1007/978-3-030-14386-2_3 43 61 en 2016-T1-001-160-05 Multilingual education yearbook 2019 : media of instruction & multilingual settings © 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. This book is made available with permission of Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Part of Springer Nature. application/pdf Springer |
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