Wendy D Bokhorst-Heng
Biographic Data
| ID | 6175774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy D Bokhorst-Heng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy D |
| FAMILY NAME | Bokhorst-Heng |
| SIGNATURE | BOKHORST-HENG W D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
(Re)Constructing Memory
This book engages readers in thirteen conversations presented by authors from around the world regarding the role that textbooks play in helping readers imagine membership in the nation. Authorsâ voices come from a variety of contexts â some historical, some contemporary, some providing analyses over time. But they all consider the changing portrayal of diversity, belonging and exclusion in multiethnic and diverse societies where silenced, invisi…
Quadrilingual Education in Singapore
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
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…
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 …
Redesigning Pedagogy
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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
Redesigning Pedagogy
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 …
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
(Re)Constructing Memory
This book engages readers in thirteen conversations presented by authors from around the world regarding the role that textbooks play in helping readers imagine membership in the nation. Authorsâ voices come from a variety of contexts â some historical, some contemporary, some providing analyses over time. But they all consider the changing portrayal of diversity, belonging and exclusion in multiethnic and diverse societies where silenced, invisi…
Quadrilingual Education in Singapore
Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (4 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art (2 works)