The Bilingual Education Policy in Singapore: Implications ...

The Bilingual Education Policy in singapore : Implications for Second Language Acquisition L. Quentin Dixon Harvard university Graduate School of Education 1. Introduction Widely hailed as an educational success story, singapore , a multilingual island nation in Southeast Asia, embraces an officially Bilingual Education Policy . English is the medium of all content-area Education from the start of schooling, with students' official mother tongue required as a single subject. Although called the student's mother tongue, these languages may not be the student's home language, resulting in many students studying two non-native languages in school. I will address the following questions in this paper: What assumptions about second language acquisition, bilingualism and language planning underlie singapore 's Bilingual Education Policy ? How does the case of singapore illuminate current theories in second language acquisition and language planning?

The Bilingual Education Policy in Singapore: Implications for Second Language Acquisition L. Quentin Dixon Harvard University Graduate School of Education

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