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WP354 Practice, theory & the researcher-teacher in a bidialectal Singlish programme
2026
This paper is an exercise in reflection on my role as a university academic adopting the part of a school-teacher – as a researcher-teacher rather than teacher-researcher – while designing and implementing a qualitative study in a secondary …
Key words: bi-dialectal pedagogy, classroom ethnography, ELT, qualitative methods, reflexivity, Singapore, Singlish
WP311 'I don't speak Singlish': Unequal Englishes, chutzpah and denial in the bidialectal classroom.
2023
In Singapore, dominant narratives of Singlish as ‘bad English’ and an impediment to acquiring the Standard co-exist with discourses about Singlish as a marker of Singaporean identity. One consequence of such competing discourses has been …
Key words: bidialectal education, Singlish