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dc.contributor.authorKirkpatrick, Andy
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:40:14Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:40:14Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.modified2013-10-16T22:31:19Z
dc.identifier.issn0143-4632
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/01434632.2012.661433
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/52188
dc.description.abstractThe Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was officially adopted in February 2009. Article 34 of the Charter states that, 'The working language of ASEAN shall be English'. In this article, I first briefly trace the development of English in ASEAN and demonstrate that, even in those countries of the ASEAN group which were not colonies of Britain or the United States, English has become increasingly important. I show that, in almost all the cases, the language policies of ASEAN countries require people to learn their respective national language and English. This combination of the learning of English is along with the learning of a national language, which can be a national lingua franca such as Bahasa Indonesia in Indonesia and Filipino in the Philippines. Consequently, local and indigenous languages, other than the national language, are being replaced by English in many school curricula and also in other domains. It is also rare to find government schools in ASEAN teaching the national languages of other ASEAN states. I conclude by considering the implications of this for multilingualism in the region.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom331
dc.relation.ispartofpageto344
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
dc.relation.ispartofvolume33
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist studies in education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnglish language
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3904
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470307
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4704
dc.titleEnglish in ASEAN: implications for regional multilingualism
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Languages and Linguistics
gro.rights.copyright© 2012 Taylor & Francis. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2012
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gro.griffith.authorKirkpatrick, Andy A.


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