Language Planning and Policy: A Case Study of Dialects in Singapore - a Web Project for EL3267B
Chiah Yuen Sin, Hannah
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Introduction
Background of Teochew & Hokkien
The Beginning of the End
Macro effects
Micro effects
SMC impacts Teochew & Hokkien!
What type of planning?
Other W-H questions
A possibility for revitalisation?
Some useful data
Some survey results
Conclusion
List of works referenced
Post-script: Phua Chu Kang
A Tribute: My Grandparents

1) Do you speak* any dialect? (If no, what language do you speak mainly and SKIP QUESTION 2) (*by speak, we mean ability to comprehend and articulate)

Yes, understand hokkien.

2) If yes, to whom? How do you rate your proficiency level? (comprehension only, or plus articulation)

3) Do you find that Mandarin is replacing the role of dialects in places eg. home/market/hawker centre? If yes, has Mandarin diluted your dialect? (eg. do you replace the words you cant say in dialect with Mandarin instead?)

yes...not reali...mi juz dun speak dialect

4) What is your opinion of people who speak dialects?

depends on which dialect...but tend to associate hokkien clan as more uncouth...

5) Given a chance, would you join classes provided for the learning of your dialect?

not reali...wld choose foreign lang instead...but dun mind learning cantonese to watch movies n drama serials...

 

6) If you have children in the future, would you want them to learn your own (or any) dialect? Why and why not?

 

i dun mind them learning...no harm in learning another lang

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