English in ASEAN: implications for regional multilingualism
English in ASEAN: implications for regional multilingualism
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东盟的英语：对区域多语言的影响
DOI：
10.1080/01434632.2012.661433
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
A. Kirkpatrick
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作者：
A. Kirkpatrick
摘要东南亚国家联盟（ASEAN）宪章于2009年2月正式通过。《宪章》第34条规定：“东盟的工作语言为英语”。在这篇文章中，我首先简要地追溯了英语在东盟的发展，并证明，即使在东盟集团的那些国家，而不是英国或美国的殖民地，英语已经变得越来越重要。我表明，在几乎所有的情况下，东盟国家的语言政策要求人们学习各自的国家语言和英语。英语学习的这种结合是沿着学习一种民族语言，这可以是一种民族弗兰卡，如印度尼西亚的印度尼西亚语和菲律宾的菲律宾语。因此，在许多学校课程和其他领域，英语正在取代国家语言以外的地方和土著语言。在东盟国家，也很少有政府学校教授其他东盟国家的民族语言。最后，我要考虑这对该区域使用多种语文的影响。
Abstract The Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was officially adopted in February 2009. Article 34 of the Charter states that, ‘The working language of ASEAN shall be English’. In this article, I first briefly trace the development of English in ASEAN and demonstrate that, even in those countries of the ASEAN group which were not colonies of Britain or the United States, English has become increasingly important. I show that, in almost all the cases, the language policies of ASEAN countries require people to learn their respective national language and English. This combination of the learning of English is along with the learning of a national language, which can be a national lingua franca such as Bahasa Indonesia in Indonesia and Filipino in the Philippines. Consequently, local and indigenous languages, other than the national language, are being replaced by English in many school curricula and also in other domains. It is also rare to find government schools in ASEAN teaching the national languages of other ASEAN states. I conclude by considering the implications of this for multilingualism in the region.