1st Edition

Language Use in Southeast Asia Present Realities and Future Trends

Edited By Shin Yi Chew, R. K. Shangeetha, Stefanie Pillai Copyright 2027
292 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Chew, Shangeetha and Pillai offer valuable insights into the future of language use and development in Southeast Asia, one of the most diverse and culturally rich regions with differing socio-economic and political ecologies. Through a rich tapestry of perspectives, the chapters provide an analysis of the current and future trajectories of language use; examining English's role as a lingua... Read more

1. Glimpses into the future of language use in Southeast Asia

Shin Yi Chew, R.K. Shangeetha and Stefanie Pillai

 

2. English in ASEAN: Challenges, opportunities and future trends

Azirah Hashim  

3. The future of language use in Southeast Asia: Embracing unpredictability in Indonesia

Setiono Sugiharto

4. Reimagining the future of Malay:  Sociolinguistic changes in Singapore’s multicultural and multilingual context

Mohamed Pitchay Gani Mohamed Abdul Aziz

 

5. Linguistic dimensions of Southeast Asian migrations

Ariane Macalinga Borlongan, Lisa Lim, Hiroki Saito and Kenichiro Kurusu

 

6. Language education for Rohingya children in Southeast Asia

Charity Lee

 

7. Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and climate resilience in Southeast Asia – Environmental linguistics for a sustainable future

Lisa Lim and Umberto Ansaldo

 

8. Positioning of new Chinese migrants: Negotiating Chineseness through multimodal linguistic landscapes

Jia Wu, Alice Chik and Singhanat Nomnian

 

9. Predicting the future of language use in Brunei Darussalam: A study based on current and recent trends 

Noor Azam Haji-Othman and James McLellan

 

10. Internationalisation as manifested through the linguistic landscape of two university campuses in Malaysia

Leng Lee Yap and Patricia Nora Riget

 

11. Philippine linguistic landscape: What the future holds

Rodney C. Jubilado

12. Language Policies of the people: The community school as a decolonial educational framework

Ruanni Tupas and Nelson Buso Jr.

 

13. Future of Indigenous language education in Malaysia “Please, Sir, I want some more”

Sarina binti Salim and Sandra Logijin

14. Contestation of ideologies in English language education in Vietnam: Internationalisation vs. decolonisation

Tin T. Dang, Tien T. V. Nguyen and Luan T. Huynh

15. The future of language education and policy in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR)
Latsanyphone Soulignavong and Bouangeune Souvannasy

16. A vision for the future: Empirically informed, human-centred ethics research on generative artificial intelligence-mediated translation

Yuezeng Niu and Ali Jalalian Daghigh

 

17. Human-AI collaboration in language education: Current practices and future directions

Joel C. Meniado

 

18. Sustaining language education in an age of new technologies: GAI, writing, and looking to the future

Priscilla Angela T. Cruz

 

19. Talking with and through machines: The future of artificial intelligence-mediated communication in multilingual Southeast Asia

Shin Yi Chew, C.M. Elanttamil and Alwin Kumar Rathinam

 

Biography

Shin Yi Chew is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.

R. K. Shangeetha is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.

Stefanie Pillai is a professor at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.