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Singapore’s English Language Policy and Language Teacher Education: A Foundation for Its Educational Success

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Language planning, cautious policy implementation and rigorous language teacher education lie at the heart of Singapore’s sustained performance on international test of student’s achievement. This chapter focuses on the contribution of Singapore’s bilingual language policy and language teacher education as a foundation for its educational success. Language competency has been established as one of the most significant factors that impacts academic achievement. In this chapter, Singapore’s educational success is viewed through the lens of how prudent language policy and planning, coupled with a carefully thought-through and judiciously implemented pre-service programme for English language teaching has set Singapore firmly on achieving and possibly being able to sustain its educational success.

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    Ee Ling Low

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Low, E.L. (2014). Singapore’s English Language Policy and Language Teacher Education: A Foundation for Its Educational Success. In: Lee, S., Lee, W., Low, E. (eds) Educational Policy Innovations. Education Innovation Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-08-5_6

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