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标题：The Teaching of Indigenous Orang Asli Language in Peninsular Malaysia
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作者：Alias Abd Ghani ; Alias Abd Ghani
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2015
卷号：208
页码：253-262
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.11.201
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractAccording to Krauss (2007) there are approximately six thousand languages still spoken by mankind, between twenty and fifty percent of the 6,000 are no longer spoken by children or will no longer be spoken by children by the end of this century. Of the six thousand or so languages spoken on earth, three hundred to five hundred can still be considered “safe.” i.e., will continue to be learned by children in the traditional way for the foreseeable future. This has prompted a need to stabilization, revival, and maintenance of our indigenous languages. This paper presents the Semai indigenousOrang Aslilanguage teaching programme as an effort of maintaining the indigenousOrang Aslilanguage in Malaysia. The Semai language teaching programme was implemented in 1998 in Semai schools in Peninsular Malaysia as part of preserving the minority indigenous language from endangerment. The programme was an outcome of the efforts made by the Semai indigenousOrang Aslicommunity by engaging themselves with relevant government authorities particularly the Curriculum Development Division, Ministry of Education, Malaysia. Semai belongs to the Senoic, Central Aslian sub-group of indigenousOrang Asli. The Senoi are the largest sub-group of theOrang Asliin Peninsular Malaysia and make up about 53.4% of theOrang Aslipopulation.
关键词：Indigenous language teaching;Language maintenance;Indigenous Orang Asli;Indigenous minority people;ethnic minority language programme.