This article describes the effects and implications of the 2002 Amendment to the Education Act for the ethnic Chinese community, through exploring the challenges that the policy pose for Chinese school and education, as well as investigating the responses of the different stakeholders in Chinese community toward the change in policy. A case study approach was adopted for this study. Surveys (of students and parents), discussions with educators, and document analysis of textbooks and newspapers were carried out. Findings indicated that this policy had negative implications for mother tongue education in Malaysia, resulting in a huge overhaul of the Chinese primary school and educational system. This assimilatory policy seeks to undermine the...
The Singapore government has been promoting the mastery of the English language as well as the mothe...
This thesis addresses a research gap in Chinese language learning (CLL) and teaching for South Asian...
This article explores why and how a minority social movement persists despite persistent constraints...
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This paper examines progress made in four schools in Hong Kong over a two-year period in providing f...
This study investigates education policy since 1970 in Malaysia aimed at achieving national integra...
Since the pre-independence era, the Malaysian schooling system has remained ethnicized by two cultur...
The study examined the ethnic socialisation by comparing the influences of the family and school on ...
Various bilingual education models can either empower or disable minority students according to thei...
Yan and Whitty analyse the general strategies adopted by the Chinese government to integrate its min...
With an ethnic minority population of over 100 million, China uses a variety of preferential treatme...
The inadequacy of Chinese language skills of the South Asian language minorities has raised concerns...
The paper aims to address the issues arising from the alternative Chinese qualifications policy on e...
In this article, I describe the adjustment experiences of 23 Chinese-speaking, foreign-born high-sch...
In 1957 Malaya achieved her independence from the British. This was a triumph of racial cooperation....
The Singapore government has been promoting the mastery of the English language as well as the mothe...
This thesis addresses a research gap in Chinese language learning (CLL) and teaching for South Asian...
This article explores why and how a minority social movement persists despite persistent constraints...
This Research paper/Rapport de recherche is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@W...
This paper examines progress made in four schools in Hong Kong over a two-year period in providing f...
This study investigates education policy since 1970 in Malaysia aimed at achieving national integra...
Since the pre-independence era, the Malaysian schooling system has remained ethnicized by two cultur...
The study examined the ethnic socialisation by comparing the influences of the family and school on ...
Various bilingual education models can either empower or disable minority students according to thei...
Yan and Whitty analyse the general strategies adopted by the Chinese government to integrate its min...
With an ethnic minority population of over 100 million, China uses a variety of preferential treatme...
The inadequacy of Chinese language skills of the South Asian language minorities has raised concerns...
The paper aims to address the issues arising from the alternative Chinese qualifications policy on e...
In this article, I describe the adjustment experiences of 23 Chinese-speaking, foreign-born high-sch...
In 1957 Malaya achieved her independence from the British. This was a triumph of racial cooperation....
The Singapore government has been promoting the mastery of the English language as well as the mothe...
This thesis addresses a research gap in Chinese language learning (CLL) and teaching for South Asian...
This article explores why and how a minority social movement persists despite persistent constraints...