1. Language Norms In A Multiethnic Society: Singapore
At the time, the high cost of English education and the scarcity of qualified English teachers were the most common reasons for the limited amount of English schools in Singapore. ... This committee felt that "without one or more common languages officially encouraged in Singapore, the ideal of unifying various races into one common people cannot be realized without being able to speak many other languages"(Borkhorst-Heng 292) Today most students attend an English teaching school where they must learn two languages other than their mother tongue. ... Depending on what type of school children...
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