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Singlish in the School: An Impediment or a Resource?
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Rubdy, Rani – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
In the Singlish-"Good" English debate, the use of Singlish (SCE) is viewed as an obstacle to the development of students' literacy skills in standard English (SSE) and so the practice of classroom codeswitching between the two varieties is strongly discouraged. Yet the presence of the vernacular in the classroom continues to be robust.…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Classroom Communication, Foreign Countries, Literacy