Identity and Communication in Asian Contexts
Edited by Asmah Haji Omar and Michael Dimitrios Hadzantonis
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32:1 (2022) v, 191 pp.
Asmah Haji Omar
List of John Benjamins publications in which Asmah Haji Omar is involved.
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Articles
2012 Chapter 9. Pragmatics of maintaining English in Malaysia’s education system English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use, Low, Ee-Ling and Azirah Hashim (eds.), pp. 155–174 | Chapter
The Malaysian government’s ruling that Malaysian schools use English as the medium for teaching Science and Mathematics (henceforth TSME) starting January 2003 had engendered various reactions (the switch back to Malay took place in 2010). These reactions, supportive or otherwise, cut across the… read more
2000 Managing languages in conflict situation: A special reference to the implementation of the policy on Malay and English in Malaysia Language Management and Language Problems: Part I, Jernudd, Björn H. (ed.), pp. 239–253 | Article
English today certainly plays a wider range of roles than before. Due to these roles and to its neutrality in not being exclusively identified with any particular ethnic community in Malaysia, English is meant to be everyone’s language in as much as the national language is. In real life the… read more