基本説明
This book examines the social and historical context of children's English in Singapore, and traces the development of four Singaporean children who have Entlish as a native language. The implications for education and speech therapy are discussed.
Full Description
In Singapore, multilingualism is the norm, and English (often the local variety) is widely acquired and used. This book examines the social and historical context of children's English in Singapore, and traces the development of four Singaporean children who have English as a native language. The implications for education and speech therapy are discussed.
Contents
Part 1 Native speakers of English in Singaporein Singapore English; features of SCE and StdE; SCE features; StdE features; who are the native speakers?; how numerous are the native speakers?; Singapore censuses, 1980 and 1990; history of English in Singapore; the schools; the pupils; the teachers; the languages; language situation in early schools; the present situation; SCE in Singapore today. Part 2 Acquiring Singapore colloquial English: introduction; acquiring a Creole; the children in my study; the boys' family; the girls' family; linguistic repertoire; learning SCE; beginning to be Diglossic; acquiring pragmatic particles in SCE. Part 3 Acquisition of interrogatives: introduction; interrogative structures in SCE; X-interrogatives; order of acquisition of wh-words; X-interrogatives with missing constituent; development of X-interrogatives; what, where and who; which and how many; fronting of wh-words - why and how; trends in main clause X-interrogatives; polar interrogatives.
