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

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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
Subjects:	Tamil language Tamil curriculum Minority language Language policy Bilingualism Language maintenance and shift
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27275

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