Attitudes towards Literary Tamil and Standard Spoken Tamil in Singapore

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-79

  Saravanan, Vanithamani ^a   Lakshmi, Seetha ^a,b   Coleon, Imelda ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NONE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Language attitudes; Matched guise; Singapore; Standard spoken Tamil; Tamil language

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846643616     PISSN: 13670050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/beb366.0     Document Type: Article

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