Malaysian linguist, Asmah Haji Omar has debated that spelling in Malay is not phonetic but graphemic, meaning that one phoneme may have more than one type of sound. In Chapter Four, we shall attempt to discuss the representation of culture in Malay language school textbooks. The Malay language education is crafted to meet these objectives and to attain the aims delineated by the bilingual education policy in Singapore. It is inevitable that language policy in Singapore has taken into account the need to determine the position of language in its education system in order to meet the desired outcomes of education. It is also important to stress at this point that this study does not seek to address all the language issues that exists in Malay language education in Singapore as well as other pertinent problems in the Malay community.
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