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Understanding Malay Academic Underachievement in Singapore by Chin Chain Yu (Paperback, 2011)

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Due to Singapore's multi-racial characteristic, our bilingual policy has adopted English as lingua franca and Mandarin, Malay, Tamil as mother tongue for each racial group. This paper employs a deconstructivist approach to study Malay academic underachievement through uncovering the operations underlying the racial stereotypical essentialist claim, specifically focusing on whether a race and its native language (Malay) can possibly account for the educational outcomes for the Malays. Focus group interview was conducted with six Malay undergraduates engaged through personal contacts and snowball sampling. This study shows how language constitutes a grey zone between multiracialism and assimilation on both micro (individual) and macro (societal) levels. Through linking both micro (bilingual policy) and macro levels ( modern Singaporean ) in terms of language, the findings of this study highlight how academic achievement or underachievement becomes simply a race issue that develops to a taken-for-granted reality when it could be unearthed as a language issue.

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Publisher
Lap Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN-13
9783844308778
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106535343

Product Key Features

Subject Area
Social Research
Author
Chin Chain Yu
Publication Name
Understanding Malay Academic Underachievement in Singapore
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
60 Pages

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Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
100g

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Title_Author
Chin Chain Yu
Country/Region of Manufacture
Germany

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