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Language policy and planning: understanding UKM's past, present and future concerns and responses

Gill, Saran Kaur, (2005) Language policy and planning: understanding UKM's past, present and future concerns and responses. Akademika (66). pp. 31-50. ISSN 01265008

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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Language and LinguisticCentre

Abstract

Malaysia has recently changed her language policy from Bahasa Melayu to English for the fields of science and technology in the education system. Over the past 30 years, huge resources have been devoted to both status and corpus planning for Bahasa Melayu to develop and be used as a scientific and technological language. This change in policy has evoked varying responses and reactions, especially at UNiversiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) which had played a major role in the development and modernization of Bahasa Melayu as a language of science. THe present change has been drivenby economic factors and the science and technology, which requires human resources who are able to keep up with knowledge in the field of science and technology which is predominantly in English. The paper puts forward UKM's responses and concerns regarding this change, which is viewed against the history of the university and the wider social, economic and political factors that have spearheaded the recent shift in the medium of instruction for the disciplines of science and technology.

Item Type:Journal
Keywords:Language policy, Bahasa Melayu, Malay language, Teaching English for Science and Technology
Subjects:P Language and Literature
ID Code:45

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