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English language in rural Malaysia: situating global literacies in local practices

This paper claims that underlying the naturalisation of teaching and learning of English in the Malaysian education system are ideological pressures and political dogmas, often emerging from colonial, urban/rural and even local ethnic conflicts and hierarchies. It suggests therein lie the inherent d...

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Main Author: Hazita Azman,
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Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2006
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spelling my-ukm.journal.12002016-12-14T06:29:06Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1200/ English language in rural Malaysia: situating global literacies in local practices Hazita Azman, This paper claims that underlying the naturalisation of teaching and learning of English in the Malaysian education system are ideological pressures and political dogmas, often emerging from colonial, urban/rural and even local ethnic conflicts and hierarchies. It suggests therein lie the inherent difficulties of teaching and learning English in rural communities in Malaysia. Three paradigms frame this view in the paper: the overarching view of literacy as a situated and variable social process; the use of an ethnographic perspective in investigating English language and literacy education in Malaysia; the stance on the need for Malaysians to acquire English as an additive rather than as a deficit philosophy. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2006 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1200/1/ha_final.pdf Hazita Azman, (2006) English language in rural Malaysia: situating global literacies in local practices. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 11 . pp. 99-119. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/~ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description This paper claims that underlying the naturalisation of teaching and learning of English in the Malaysian education system are ideological pressures and political dogmas, often emerging from colonial, urban/rural and even local ethnic conflicts and hierarchies. It suggests therein lie the inherent difficulties of teaching and learning English in rural communities in Malaysia. Three paradigms frame this view in the paper: the overarching view of literacy as a situated and variable social process; the use of an ethnographic perspective in investigating English language and literacy education in Malaysia; the stance on the need for Malaysians to acquire English as an additive rather than as a deficit philosophy.
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English language in rural Malaysia: situating global literacies in local practices
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title English language in rural Malaysia: situating global literacies in local practices
title_short English language in rural Malaysia: situating global literacies in local practices
title_full English language in rural Malaysia: situating global literacies in local practices
title_fullStr English language in rural Malaysia: situating global literacies in local practices
title_full_unstemmed English language in rural Malaysia: situating global literacies in local practices
title_sort english language in rural malaysia: situating global literacies in local practices
publisher Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate 2006
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1200/1/ha_final.pdf
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