Language, Education and Nation-building Assimilation and Shift in Southeast Asia

Language, Identities and Education in Asia examines the issues of language, education, and identity in the multilingual Southeast Asian nations of Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore. The authors' main focus is the ways in which local institutional forces are affecting macro and micro-level language choices and the evolution of local identities in the face of increasing political and economic globalization.

MAYA K. DAVID is Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Linguists, UK and is attached to the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya. VANITHAMANI SARAVANAN is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and seconded to the Centre for Research And Pedagogy, at the National Institute of Education and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. PETER G. SERCOMBE is a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University.

Introduction--P.G.Sercombe * Political, Educational and Socioeconomic Reasons for Language Shift in Multilingual Peninsular Malaya--M.K.David * Language Choices of Metropolitan Sino-Indians in the Klang Valley, Malaysia--M.K.David * Globalisation: Assserting Ownership over Local Linguistic and Cultural Identities--V.Saravanan * Reversing Language Shift: Multilingual Communities' Responses to Language Maintenance--V.Saravanan * Brunei Darussalam: Issues of Language, Identity and Education--P.G.Sercombe * Language, Identity and Education and the Penan in Brunei--P.G.Sercombe * Postscript--M.K.David * References * Index Introduction--P.G.Sercombe * Political, Educational and Socioeconomic Reasons for Language Shift in Multilingual Peninsular Malaya--M.K.David * Language Choices of Metropolitan Sino-Indians in the Klang Valley, Malaysia--M.K.David * Globalisation: Assserting Ownership over Local Linguistic and Cultural Identities--V.Saravanan * Reversing Language Shift: Multilingual Communities' Responses to Language Maintenance--V.Saravanan * Brunei Darussalam: Issues of Language, Identity and Education--P.G.Sercombe * Language, Identity and Education and the Penan in Brunei--P.G.Sercombe * Postscript--M.K.David * References * Index