Wendy D Bokhorst‐heng
Biographic Data
| ID | 176925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy D Bokhorst‐heng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy D |
| FAMILY NAME | Bokhorst‐heng |
| SIGNATURE | HENG W D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Crandall University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1773-7514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘Being bilingual will open doors for them’
Purpose: New Brunswick, Canada, established its English-French Official Languages Act (OLA) in 1969 to promote linguistic equality for historically minoritized Francophones, premised on a language-as-right ideology. The OLA has been presented to Anglophones, however, as creating access to English-French bilingualism for various kinds of capital through a neoliberal language-as-resource ideology. In this context of conflicting ideologies, we wonde…
Canadian Immersion Students’ Investment in French
French second language education, including the option of one‐way French immersion, is mandated for majority‐language Anglophone children in New Brunswick, Canada's only officially bilingual province. Language ideological debates in the province surrounding official English–French bilingualism led us to investigate adolescent majority‐language immersion students’ investment in French, the co‐official minority language, using Darvin and Norton's t…
I wouldn't want to impose!” Intercultural mediation in French immersion
This article examines four French immersion (FI) teachers’ perspectives on the relationship between language and culture and on their roles as intercultural mediators in New Brunswick (NB), Canada's only officially bilingual province. Data were drawn from semi‐structured interviews with the teachers. Couched in the broader framework of Canada's multicultural policy, the cultural outcomes for NB's FI program underscore the importance of learning F…
Reconsidering language shift within Singapore's Chinese community
The official narrative told by national census data in Singapore is that of massive language shift within one generation from a myriad of Chinese dialects towards Mandarin and English as dominant home languages. This story of shift is often told in ways that suggest the community completely and pragmatically transformed its practices and allegiances
Quadrilingual Education in Singapore
Contested spaces in policy enactment
Style, identity and literacy
Style, identity and literacy: English in Singapore, by Christopher Stroud and Lionel Wee, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2012, xiv +237 pp., £89.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-84769-596-3, £29.95 (paper
Neither “Mono” nor “Multi”
The language attitudes of bilingual youth in multilingual Singapore
This paper is about the language attitudes that bilingual youth in Singapore have towards their Mother Tongue and English, and towards codeswitching between the two. The language attitudes of 443 primary school students were investigated using a variation of the matched-guise technique. Status and solidarity dimensions of attitudes, with ethnicity and socio-economic status as independent variables, were used in the analysis. The Chinese and India…
Enacting English language ownership in the Outer Circle
Singapore is unique in that it has not only embraced English as one of its official languages, but has made the language of its colonizers the de facto working language of the nation and the sole medium of instruction in all its schools, while assigning its other three official languages, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, an L2 status in the school curriculum. With the use of English institutionalized in almost all domains of life, present- day Singapo…
Language Planning in Singapore
Singapore's annual Speak Mandarin Campaign has been largely successful in shifting the language patterns of its Chinese citizens from Chinese dialects to Mandarin in all sectors. However, there has been a notable exception: the effort to have Chinese Singaporeans give their children Mandarin names, rather than dialect ones. In this paper, we analyse this ‘blip’ in government policy implementation, arguing that it provides important insights into …
English language ownership among Singaporean Malays
Singapore represents what Kachru calls an Outer Circle country. English is an official language, the de facto working language of the nation, and is the medium of instruction in all schools. Yet, with three dominant races and their affiliated languages, there is no single pattern of English language acquisition among Singaporeans. While some do indeed learn English as a second language, others acquire it in the process of its use and interaction,…
Language policy and nationalist ideology
In this paper, we aim to anticipate a potential challenge to Singapore’s language policy, which privileges a distinction between Asian ‘mother tongues’ on the one hand and English on the other. The challenge to this policy will arise as Singapore embarks on a foreign talent policy, where the goal is to ultimately attract talented foreigners to take up Singaporean citizenship. This other policy, if successful, could drastically change the nation’s…
Debating Singlish
In his encyclopedia of language, Crystal (1995) identified two main perspectives contributing to a nation’s decisions around language: national identity and internationalism. In the former, the nation looks within itself at its societal structure and composition, defining its needs in relation to national identity. In the latter, the nation looks outside from itself at the world and global economy, and defines itself and its needs in relation to …
Newspapers in Singapore
This discussion examines the ideology and practices of the mass daily press in Singapore within the socio-political context of ‘imagining’ the nation (Anderson, 1991). Most discussions see Singapore’s press as synonymous with the strict controls under which it operates; however, even this is rarely examined within the context of its interaction with the larger agenda of nation-building. Yet, when Brigadier General (BG) Lee Hsien Loong (then Trade…
Debating Singlish
In his encyclopedia of language, Crystal (1995) identified two main perspectives contributing to a nation’s decisions around language: national identity and internationalism. In the former, the nation looks within itself at its societal structure and composition, defining its needs in relation to national identity. In the latter, the nation looks outside from itself at the world and global economy, and defines itself and its needs in relation to …
Language policy and nationalist ideology
In this paper, we aim to anticipate a potential challenge to Singapore’s language policy, which privileges a distinction between Asian ‘mother tongues’ on the one hand and English on the other. The challenge to this policy will arise as Singapore embarks on a foreign talent policy, where the goal is to ultimately attract talented foreigners to take up Singaporean citizenship. This other policy, if successful, could drastically change the nation’s…
The language attitudes of bilingual youth in multilingual Singapore
This paper is about the language attitudes that bilingual youth in Singapore have towards their Mother Tongue and English, and towards codeswitching between the two. The language attitudes of 443 primary school students were investigated using a variation of the matched-guise technique. Status and solidarity dimensions of attitudes, with ethnicity and socio-economic status as independent variables, were used in the analysis. The Chinese and India…
Newspapers in Singapore
This discussion examines the ideology and practices of the mass daily press in Singapore within the socio-political context of ‘imagining’ the nation (Anderson, 1991). Most discussions see Singapore’s press as synonymous with the strict controls under which it operates; however, even this is rarely examined within the context of its interaction with the larger agenda of nation-building. Yet, when Brigadier General (BG) Lee Hsien Loong (then Trade…
I wouldn't want to impose!” Intercultural mediation in French immersion
This article examines four French immersion (FI) teachers’ perspectives on the relationship between language and culture and on their roles as intercultural mediators in New Brunswick (NB), Canada's only officially bilingual province. Data were drawn from semi‐structured interviews with the teachers. Couched in the broader framework of Canada's multicultural policy, the cultural outcomes for NB's FI program underscore the importance of learning F…
Enacting English language ownership in the Outer Circle
Singapore is unique in that it has not only embraced English as one of its official languages, but has made the language of its colonizers the de facto working language of the nation and the sole medium of instruction in all its schools, while assigning its other three official languages, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, an L2 status in the school curriculum. With the use of English institutionalized in almost all domains of life, present- day Singapo…
Language Planning in Singapore
Singapore's annual Speak Mandarin Campaign has been largely successful in shifting the language patterns of its Chinese citizens from Chinese dialects to Mandarin in all sectors. However, there has been a notable exception: the effort to have Chinese Singaporeans give their children Mandarin names, rather than dialect ones. In this paper, we analyse this ‘blip’ in government policy implementation, arguing that it provides important insights into …
English language ownership among Singaporean Malays
Singapore represents what Kachru calls an Outer Circle country. English is an official language, the de facto working language of the nation, and is the medium of instruction in all schools. Yet, with three dominant races and their affiliated languages, there is no single pattern of English language acquisition among Singaporeans. While some do indeed learn English as a second language, others acquire it in the process of its use and interaction,…
Reconsidering language shift within Singapore's Chinese community
The official narrative told by national census data in Singapore is that of massive language shift within one generation from a myriad of Chinese dialects towards Mandarin and English as dominant home languages. This story of shift is often told in ways that suggest the community completely and pragmatically transformed its practices and allegiances
Contested spaces in policy enactment
Neither “Mono” nor “Multi”
Newspapers in Singapore
This discussion examines the ideology and practices of the mass daily press in Singapore within the socio-political context of ‘imagining’ the nation (Anderson, 1991). Most discussions see Singapore’s press as synonymous with the strict controls under which it operates; however, even this is rarely examined within the context of its interaction with the larger agenda of nation-building. Yet, when Brigadier General (BG) Lee Hsien Loong (then Trade…
Language policy and nationalist ideology
In this paper, we aim to anticipate a potential challenge to Singapore’s language policy, which privileges a distinction between Asian ‘mother tongues’ on the one hand and English on the other. The challenge to this policy will arise as Singapore embarks on a foreign talent policy, where the goal is to ultimately attract talented foreigners to take up Singaporean citizenship. This other policy, if successful, could drastically change the nation’s…
Debating Singlish
In his encyclopedia of language, Crystal (1995) identified two main perspectives contributing to a nation’s decisions around language: national identity and internationalism. In the former, the nation looks within itself at its societal structure and composition, defining its needs in relation to national identity. In the latter, the nation looks outside from itself at the world and global economy, and defines itself and its needs in relation to …
Language Planning in Singapore
Singapore's annual Speak Mandarin Campaign has been largely successful in shifting the language patterns of its Chinese citizens from Chinese dialects to Mandarin in all sectors. However, there has been a notable exception: the effort to have Chinese Singaporeans give their children Mandarin names, rather than dialect ones. In this paper, we analyse this ‘blip’ in government policy implementation, arguing that it provides important insights into …
English language ownership among Singaporean Malays
Singapore represents what Kachru calls an Outer Circle country. English is an official language, the de facto working language of the nation, and is the medium of instruction in all schools. Yet, with three dominant races and their affiliated languages, there is no single pattern of English language acquisition among Singaporeans. While some do indeed learn English as a second language, others acquire it in the process of its use and interaction,…
Enacting English language ownership in the Outer Circle
Singapore is unique in that it has not only embraced English as one of its official languages, but has made the language of its colonizers the de facto working language of the nation and the sole medium of instruction in all its schools, while assigning its other three official languages, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, an L2 status in the school curriculum. With the use of English institutionalized in almost all domains of life, present- day Singapo…
The language attitudes of bilingual youth in multilingual Singapore
This paper is about the language attitudes that bilingual youth in Singapore have towards their Mother Tongue and English, and towards codeswitching between the two. The language attitudes of 443 primary school students were investigated using a variation of the matched-guise technique. Status and solidarity dimensions of attitudes, with ethnicity and socio-economic status as independent variables, were used in the analysis. The Chinese and India…
Style, identity and literacy
Style, identity and literacy: English in Singapore, by Christopher Stroud and Lionel Wee, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2012, xiv +237 pp., £89.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-84769-596-3, £29.95 (paper
Neither “Mono” nor “Multi”
Quadrilingual Education in Singapore
Contested spaces in policy enactment
Reconsidering language shift within Singapore's Chinese community
The official narrative told by national census data in Singapore is that of massive language shift within one generation from a myriad of Chinese dialects towards Mandarin and English as dominant home languages. This story of shift is often told in ways that suggest the community completely and pragmatically transformed its practices and allegiances
I wouldn't want to impose!” Intercultural mediation in French immersion
This article examines four French immersion (FI) teachers’ perspectives on the relationship between language and culture and on their roles as intercultural mediators in New Brunswick (NB), Canada's only officially bilingual province. Data were drawn from semi‐structured interviews with the teachers. Couched in the broader framework of Canada's multicultural policy, the cultural outcomes for NB's FI program underscore the importance of learning F…
Canadian Immersion Students’ Investment in French
French second language education, including the option of one‐way French immersion, is mandated for majority‐language Anglophone children in New Brunswick, Canada's only officially bilingual province. Language ideological debates in the province surrounding official English–French bilingualism led us to investigate adolescent majority‐language immersion students’ investment in French, the co‐official minority language, using Darvin and Norton's t…
‘Being bilingual will open doors for them’
Purpose: New Brunswick, Canada, established its English-French Official Languages Act (OLA) in 1969 to promote linguistic equality for historically minoritized Francophones, premised on a language-as-right ideology. The OLA has been presented to Anglophones, however, as creating access to English-French bilingualism for various kinds of capital through a neoliberal language-as-resource ideology. In this context of conflicting ideologies, we wonde…
Sociology (15 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Ideology (6 works)