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Abdullah Saad Abdullah Bin Dobaian

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Professor of Theoretical Linguistics, Department of English and Literature

العلوم اﻹنسانية واﻻجتماعية
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Globalization and Language Planning: the Case of Malay language

Education Sociolinguistics Higher Education Language Planning Malay Language

Soon after Malaysia got its independence from the British colonization in 1957, it has been striving to establish the Malay language (Bahasa Melayu) as the National language (Hassan, 2004). Malay has been seen as a symbol of unity and identity in a country with various ethnic backgrounds speaking unintelligible languages. There was an urgent need to use one common language among all the ethnic communities - Indians, Chinese, and Malay – to achieve two basic goals: communication and social integration. This paper attempts to evaluate the planning process of Malay language in the last fifty years. This planning process is examined based on Haugen’s language planning model (Haugen, 1983). It is shown that the language policy succeeded in implementing Malay as a national language. Nonetheless, the Malay language policy has not been implemented at the official level. As a result of globalization and the open market economy, there has been a shift in the language policy. More specifically there has been a change from Malay to English as the language of business and industry at the economy level. Moreover English was adopted as the instruction language for math and science at the higher education level. I argue that the change of language policy threatens Malay language not only at the official level but also at the national level. In order for Malay language to eventually assume the official tasks educationally and economically, this language has to be developed through the prolific translations and publications; furthermore, the Malay language should be enriched with technical and scientific terms as Haugen’s model predicts.

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2007
publications
2017
تم النشر فى:
Institute for the Study and Research on Arabization
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I discuss the morphological analysis of tense and aspect proposed by early Arab grammarians and illustrate some of its problems. In order to account for these problems, the Arab grammarians had to…

2018
تم النشر فى:
Australian International Academic Centre PTY.LTD