The medium-of-instruction debate in malaysia: English as a malaysian language?;Perbahasan bahasa pengantar di Malaysia: Bahasa Inggeris sebagai bahasa ke-Malaysia-an?;La instrulingva debato en Malajzio: La angla kiel malajzia lingvo?

Language Problems and Language Planning

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-66

  Tan, Peter K W ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 34247672368     PISSN: 02722690     EISSN: 15699889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lplp.29.1.04tan     Document Type: Article

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