Singlish in the school: An impediment or a resource?

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 308-324

  Rubdy, Rani ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Classroom codeswitching; Interference; Literacy practices; Singapore; Singlish; Standard English

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249147533     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/jmmd459.0     Document Type: Article

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