Tamil language in multicultural Singapore: key issues in teaching and maintaining a minority language

This chapter focuses on how Tamil, a minority language in Singapore, is being maintained by institutionalising it. As one of four official languages in Singapore, Tamil is taught from pre-primary to junior colleges as Mother Tongue, but its survival is threatened by the linguistic heterogeneity of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rajan, Rajeni
Other Authors: Dunworth, K.
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27275