The language attitudes of bilingual youth in multilingual Singapore

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 235-251

  Bokhorst Heng, Wendy D ^a   Caleon, Imelda Santos ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Codes witching; Language attitudes; Language in education policy; Singapore; Socio linguistic survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950702329     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01434630802510121     Document Type: Article

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