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title:The Step-tongue : Children's English in Singapore Multilingual Matters (Series) ; 101
author:Gupta, Anthea Fraser.
publisher:Multilingual Matters
isbn10 | asin:1853592307
print isbn13:9781853592300
ebook isbn13:9780585126197
language:English
subjectEnglish language--Singapore, Children--Singapore--Language.
publication date:1994
lcc:PE3502.S5G86 1994eb
ddc:306.4/46/095957
subject:English language--Singapore, Children--Singapore--Language.
Page i
The Step-Tongue
Page ii.
MULTILIGUAL MATTERS
Attitudes and Language
COLIN BAKER
Bilingualism and National Development
GARY M. JONES and A. CONRAD K. OZG (eds)
Continuing to Think: The British Asian Girl
BARRIE WADE and PAMELA SOUTER
Couping with Two Cultures
PAUL A. S. GHUMAN
Education of Chinese Children in Britain and the USA
LORNITA YUEN-FAN WONG
Language, Culture and Cognition
LILLIAM MALAV and GEORGES DUQUETTE (eds)
Language, Minority Education and Gender
DAVID CORSON
Linguistic and Communicative Competence
CHRISTINA BRATT-PAULSTON
Multilingualism and Nation Building
GERDA MANSOUR
School to Work in Transition in Japan
KAORI OKANO
Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy
ROD ELLIS
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Bilingual Education
CHRISTINA BRATT PAULSTON
Sustaining Local Literacies
DAVID BARTON (ed.)
System in Black Language
DAVID SUTCLIFFE with JOHN FIGUEROA
Teaching and Researching Language in African Classrooms
CASMIR RUBAGUMYA (ed.)
Teaching Composition around the Pacific Rim
M. N. BROCK and L. WALTERS (eds)
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Multilingual Matters Ltd,
Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road,
Clevedon, Avon BS21 7SJ, England
Page iii
The Step-Tongue
Children's English in Singapore
Anthea Fraser Gupta
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD
Clevedon Philadephia Adelaide
Page iv.
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Gupta, Anthea Fraser, 1951
The Step-Tongue: Children's English in Singapore/Anthea Fraser Gupta
p. cm. (Multilingual Matters: 101)
1. English languageSingapore. 2. ChildrenSingapore language (new words,
slang, etc). I. Title. II. Series: Multilingual Matters (Series): 101.
PE3502.S5G86 1994
306.4'46'095957dc20 92-50650
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 1-85359-230-7 (hbk)
ISBN 1-85359-229-3 (pbk)
Multilingual Matters Ltd
UK: Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7SJ.
USA: 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007, USA.
Australia: P.O. Box 6025, 83 Gilles Street, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia.
Copyright 1994 Anthea Fraser Gupta
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by
any means without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed and bound in Great Britain by WBC Ltd, Bridgend.
Page v.
To my Parents
Albert Shields
1919-1993
and
Joyce Fraser Shields
b. 1922
Page vii
Contents
Preface
ix
Tables and Figures
xi
Conventions and Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction
1
Native Speakers of English in Singapore
5
Picture 2
Introduction
5
Picture 3
Diglossia in Singapore English
7
Picture 4
Features of SCE and StdE
9
Picture 5
SCE features
10
Picture 6
StdE features
12
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