Variable impact of Malaysia’s national language planning on non-Malay speakers in Sarawak

• Main Author: Ting, Su Hie
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS 2012
• Subjects: AC Collections. Series. Collected works; P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1089/1/Variable%2Bimpact%2Bof%2BMalaysia%E2%80%99s%2Bnational%2Blanguage%2B%2528abstract%2529.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1089/

The study examined the impact of the national language policy on the language use of three main ethnic groups in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The data analyzed was based on a sociolinguistic survey on language use in six domains that involved 937 Malay, Chinese and Iban adolescents from three ma...