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International Corpus of English (ICE)

ICE-Malaysia

ICE

After independence from Britain, the status of English began to be re-defined, and from the late 1960s onwards the national language Bahasa Malaysia replaced English as the dominant language of government and education. McArthur (1992) estimates that at least 20% of the population understand English. The informal variety of Malaysian English is known as 'Manglish'. Population: c.23 million.

Reading
Platt, J. & W. Weber (1980) English in Singapore and Malaysia: Status, Features, Functions. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

Links

Online Newspapers

New Straits Times


Online Radio Stations

Radio 1

Weiterführende Informationen

Contact

The Malaysian component of ICE is based at Universiti Sains Malaysia.

 

Contact:

Dr Hajar Abdul Rahim 
School of Humanities 
Universiti Sains Malaysia 
11800 Penang 
Malaysia

Email: hajar@usm.my

 

Dr Su'ad Awab
Faculty of Languages & Linguistics
The University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Email: suad@um.edu.my