CURRICULUM STUDIES

FINAL SEMESTER“Multilingualism”

By KJ/IPGKDRI 2015

• Also known as multi-competent• Most multilingual speakers fall somewhere

between minimal and maximal definitions – (Vivian C,1992)

• International interactions-school children nowadays compelled to learn multiple languages.

QUESTION

How much language did you learned from the beginning of your life until now?

Multilingual person

• Communicate MORE than one language/ bilingual/ trilingual

SpeakingReadingListeningWriting

POLYGLOT• A multilingual person • Knowing or using several languages.• Acquired and maintained at least one

language during childhood/ mother tongue/L1• Simultaneous bilinguals- those who acquired

two languages, usually one dominates over the others

• Not all speakers are/need to be multilingual in societies.

• When all speakers are multilingual, linguists classify the community according to the functional distribution of the language involved;

DIGLOSSIA • Structural functional distribution of the

languages involved in society.• Refers to a situation in which two dialects or

languages are used by a single language community.

• Kind of bilingualism in a society in which one of the languages has high prestige (H)

• Other of the languages has low prestige (L)

AMBILINGUALISM• Functional distribution is not observed.

• A speaker has complete mastery of two languages and makes use of both in all uses to which he puts either

• Manifest in a specific region of larger states that have both clear dominant state language and protected minority language that is limited in terms of distribution of speakers.

BIPART-LINGUALISM

• If more than one language can be heard in a small area, but large majority of speakers are monolinguals who have little contact with speakers from other ethnic groups.

UNITY IN EDUCATION

• Malaysian identity and is to embrace our diverse heritage.

• School have a unique potential to be place to foster unity.

• Govt’ system has struggled to measure unity in a diversity in National School.

Medium spreading unity in school

• Using teaching materials representing all ethnicities across the country;

• School –based programme focused in unity development;

• Student enrolment in overall public;

UNITY ISSUES

• Homogenous environment; specific schooling options.

-most student enrol in a single exposure secondary school format; SMK-child who transfers from SJKC to independent Chinese school/SK or from SK to SMKA

DIVERSITY OF SCHOOL IN MALAYSIA

• Public primary school comprises SK,SJKC, SJKT-is defined by diff medium of instruction 99% primary enrolment.• Public Secondary school comprises SMK -single school format -88% total secondary enrolment-

• completing lower 2ndary sch, students are pursued to continue to alternate pathways

• Private school comprises small but growing no. of students enrolment.

-both in primary and secondary level inc private national curriculum, international sch, religious schools & independent Chinese school.

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