L Lu
Biographic Data
| ID | 29670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Lu |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Lu |
| SIGNATURE | LU L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9558-6408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond translanguaging: Fluidity and fixity in everyday language practices of multilingual Singapore
The aim of this paper is to assess the extent to which translanguaging might characterise the speech of Singaporeans where language mixing is a mundane and prevalent part of life. Drawing on interactional data among Singaporean adults between 21–35 years of age, we argue that prominent conceptualisations of translanguaging may: (a) fail to accommodate language mixing practices rooted in the ideology of separate and discrete languages; and in doin…
Global, regional and national burdens of otitis media in children and adolescents from 1990 to 2021 and its predictions to 2040
Background: Otitis media (OM), including acute OM, chronic OM, and OM with effusion, is associated with varying degrees of hearing impairment. Children and adolescents (CAAs) are particularly vulnerable to OM. However, epidemiological data on OM in CAAs is relatively scarce. This study investigates the global, regional, and national burden of OM in CAAs from 1990 to 2021, with projections extending to 2040. Methods: Data were extracted from Globa…
Marginalization, 'Lee Kuan Yew', and a Chinese-educated class: Understanding the collective memory of Singapore's Speak Mandarin Campaign
The Speak Mandarin Campaign (SMC) was launched in Singapore in 1979, promoting Mandarin among the Chinese population. An emerging prevalent narrative blames the SMC in terms of causing Chinese cultural erosion. This article seeks to understand how and why this monolithic discourse has emerged. We do this by tracing Mandarinization as a transnational ideology originating from China's founding as a republic. We draw on life history interviews with …
Who's being elitist? A debate about the enregisterment of Singlish
This article is a rejoinder to Lee (2023) who makes certain claims about the enregisterment of Singlish via a case study of Spiaking Singlish. In challenging Lee's key claim that Spiaking Singlish deploys a form of elitist language, I argue that the Singlish features in the book need not demand a solely ludic reading and actually draw from everyday practices. Accordingly, enregisterment ought to be understood as a diachronic and evolving process …
Exploring Singlish as a Pedagogical Resource in the ELT Classroom: Implementing Bidialectal Pedagogy in Singapore
Despite the prevalence of Singlish use among the Singaporean public, the vernacular is often seen as “bad English” without rules and grammar, or cast as an impediment to learning the standard register (Wee, 2005). This rhetoric is reproduced by the state (Chang, 2016), often involving the fear that speakers are unable to distinguish and deploy the two varieties appropriately. It is therefore unsurprising that bidialectal strategies involving Stan…
The punctuated equilibrium model of public policy: Explaining inertia in Singapore’s Mother Tongue policy
Applying a ‘glonacal’ framework: The education choices of academically elite students in Singapore in relation to state scholarships
This study is an attempt at better understanding the education choices of top-performing students in elite schooling. It applies a ‘glonacal’ framework (Maxwell 2018, “Changing Spaces – The Reshaping of (Elite) Education Through Internationalisation.” In Elite Education and Internationalization: From the Early Years Into Higher Education, edited by C. Maxwell, U. Deppe, H. Kruger, and W. Helsper, 347–367. London: Palgrave Macmillan.) and focuses …
Disaffiliation amongst academically elite students in Singapore: The role of a non-standard variety of English
This article seeks to examine whether and how a non-standard variety of English (i.e. Singlish) might contribute to (dis)affiliation amongst a multinational group of academically elite students in Singapore. Using interview data when informants expressed ideologies about Singlish and Standard English, I argue that informants tended to orient to two different social fields in interviews: a field of education where Standard English is consistently …
The (In)significance of Race in Singapore’s Immigration Context: Accounts of Self-Differentiation by Academically Elite Students
In order to counter low birthrates, the Singapore state recruits top-performing students from China and Vietnam with scholarships to augment the local talent pool. Another criterion is that most immigrants must be ethnically Chinese, so as to fit into Singapore’s majority racial group. This study examines whether and how race (or other factors) might contribute to (dis)affiliation amongst academically elite students in Singapore. Drawing on life …
Academically elite students in Singapore: A collective moral stance toward aspirations and trajectories
This paper draws on a Linguistic Ethnography (Blommaert & Rampton 2011) of a group of academically elite students in Singapore. The group comprises locals born in Singapore, as well as immigrants from China and Vietnam. My informants all attended a top-ranked secondary school in Singapore. I present data from interviews and a focus group discussion with them about their aspirations and educational pathways. These academically elite students descr…
Effect of village income and household income on sanitation facilities, hygiene behaviours and child undernutrition during rapid economic growth in a rural cross-border area, Yunnan, China
BACKGROUND: The study aimed to examine the effects of village income and household income on child nutrition status through basic sanitation and hygiene behaviours. METHODS: A survey was conducted in a rural cross-border area of Yunnan, China. Data on village income in 2002-2006 and household income in 2002-2007 were obtained from an official report and a household survey respectively. Anthropometric measurement of the children aged 6 months to 5…
Exploring Singlish as a Pedagogical Resource in the ELT Classroom: Implementing Bidialectal Pedagogy in Singapore
Despite the prevalence of Singlish use among the Singaporean public, the vernacular is often seen as “bad English” without rules and grammar, or cast as an impediment to learning the standard register (Wee, 2005). This rhetoric is reproduced by the state (Chang, 2016), often involving the fear that speakers are unable to distinguish and deploy the two varieties appropriately. It is therefore unsurprising that bidialectal strategies involving Stan…
The punctuated equilibrium model of public policy: Explaining inertia in Singapore’s Mother Tongue policy
Disaffiliation amongst academically elite students in Singapore: The role of a non-standard variety of English
This article seeks to examine whether and how a non-standard variety of English (i.e. Singlish) might contribute to (dis)affiliation amongst a multinational group of academically elite students in Singapore. Using interview data when informants expressed ideologies about Singlish and Standard English, I argue that informants tended to orient to two different social fields in interviews: a field of education where Standard English is consistently …
The (In)significance of Race in Singapore’s Immigration Context: Accounts of Self-Differentiation by Academically Elite Students
In order to counter low birthrates, the Singapore state recruits top-performing students from China and Vietnam with scholarships to augment the local talent pool. Another criterion is that most immigrants must be ethnically Chinese, so as to fit into Singapore’s majority racial group. This study examines whether and how race (or other factors) might contribute to (dis)affiliation amongst academically elite students in Singapore. Drawing on life …
Who's being elitist? A debate about the enregisterment of Singlish
This article is a rejoinder to Lee (2023) who makes certain claims about the enregisterment of Singlish via a case study of Spiaking Singlish. In challenging Lee's key claim that Spiaking Singlish deploys a form of elitist language, I argue that the Singlish features in the book need not demand a solely ludic reading and actually draw from everyday practices. Accordingly, enregisterment ought to be understood as a diachronic and evolving process …
Effect of village income and household income on sanitation facilities, hygiene behaviours and child undernutrition during rapid economic growth in a rural cross-border area, Yunnan, China
BACKGROUND: The study aimed to examine the effects of village income and household income on child nutrition status through basic sanitation and hygiene behaviours. METHODS: A survey was conducted in a rural cross-border area of Yunnan, China. Data on village income in 2002-2006 and household income in 2002-2007 were obtained from an official report and a household survey respectively. Anthropometric measurement of the children aged 6 months to 5…
Academically elite students in Singapore: A collective moral stance toward aspirations and trajectories
This paper draws on a Linguistic Ethnography (Blommaert & Rampton 2011) of a group of academically elite students in Singapore. The group comprises locals born in Singapore, as well as immigrants from China and Vietnam. My informants all attended a top-ranked secondary school in Singapore. I present data from interviews and a focus group discussion with them about their aspirations and educational pathways. These academically elite students descr…
The (In)significance of Race in Singapore’s Immigration Context: Accounts of Self-Differentiation by Academically Elite Students
In order to counter low birthrates, the Singapore state recruits top-performing students from China and Vietnam with scholarships to augment the local talent pool. Another criterion is that most immigrants must be ethnically Chinese, so as to fit into Singapore’s majority racial group. This study examines whether and how race (or other factors) might contribute to (dis)affiliation amongst academically elite students in Singapore. Drawing on life …
The punctuated equilibrium model of public policy: Explaining inertia in Singapore’s Mother Tongue policy
Applying a ‘glonacal’ framework: The education choices of academically elite students in Singapore in relation to state scholarships
This study is an attempt at better understanding the education choices of top-performing students in elite schooling. It applies a ‘glonacal’ framework (Maxwell 2018, “Changing Spaces – The Reshaping of (Elite) Education Through Internationalisation.” In Elite Education and Internationalization: From the Early Years Into Higher Education, edited by C. Maxwell, U. Deppe, H. Kruger, and W. Helsper, 347–367. London: Palgrave Macmillan.) and focuses …
Disaffiliation amongst academically elite students in Singapore: The role of a non-standard variety of English
This article seeks to examine whether and how a non-standard variety of English (i.e. Singlish) might contribute to (dis)affiliation amongst a multinational group of academically elite students in Singapore. Using interview data when informants expressed ideologies about Singlish and Standard English, I argue that informants tended to orient to two different social fields in interviews: a field of education where Standard English is consistently …
Exploring Singlish as a Pedagogical Resource in the ELT Classroom: Implementing Bidialectal Pedagogy in Singapore
Despite the prevalence of Singlish use among the Singaporean public, the vernacular is often seen as “bad English” without rules and grammar, or cast as an impediment to learning the standard register (Wee, 2005). This rhetoric is reproduced by the state (Chang, 2016), often involving the fear that speakers are unable to distinguish and deploy the two varieties appropriately. It is therefore unsurprising that bidialectal strategies involving Stan…
Global, regional and national burdens of otitis media in children and adolescents from 1990 to 2021 and its predictions to 2040
Background: Otitis media (OM), including acute OM, chronic OM, and OM with effusion, is associated with varying degrees of hearing impairment. Children and adolescents (CAAs) are particularly vulnerable to OM. However, epidemiological data on OM in CAAs is relatively scarce. This study investigates the global, regional, and national burden of OM in CAAs from 1990 to 2021, with projections extending to 2040. Methods: Data were extracted from Globa…
Marginalization, 'Lee Kuan Yew', and a Chinese-educated class: Understanding the collective memory of Singapore's Speak Mandarin Campaign
The Speak Mandarin Campaign (SMC) was launched in Singapore in 1979, promoting Mandarin among the Chinese population. An emerging prevalent narrative blames the SMC in terms of causing Chinese cultural erosion. This article seeks to understand how and why this monolithic discourse has emerged. We do this by tracing Mandarinization as a transnational ideology originating from China's founding as a republic. We draw on life history interviews with …
Who's being elitist? A debate about the enregisterment of Singlish
This article is a rejoinder to Lee (2023) who makes certain claims about the enregisterment of Singlish via a case study of Spiaking Singlish. In challenging Lee's key claim that Spiaking Singlish deploys a form of elitist language, I argue that the Singlish features in the book need not demand a solely ludic reading and actually draw from everyday practices. Accordingly, enregisterment ought to be understood as a diachronic and evolving process …
Beyond translanguaging: Fluidity and fixity in everyday language practices of multilingual Singapore
The aim of this paper is to assess the extent to which translanguaging might characterise the speech of Singaporeans where language mixing is a mundane and prevalent part of life. Drawing on interactional data among Singaporean adults between 21–35 years of age, we argue that prominent conceptualisations of translanguaging may: (a) fail to accommodate language mixing practices rooted in the ideology of separate and discrete languages; and in doin…
Political science (7 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Elite (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works)