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Standard Variations and Conceptions of Language in Various Language Cultures
Ana Fabiola Rojas R. (Univ. Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia)
Multilingual Malayasian Students - An open Society that welcomes Spanish?The purpose of this paper is to analyze the grade of acceptance and the attitude of the students of the University Malaysia Sabah, UMS with regard of the learning Spanish language as a foreign language. The study is focused in the context where "Bahasa Melayu" is the national language of Malaysia, in other words, is the mother tongue for the Malay population and English is consider widely spoken all over the country.
This study involves the perceptions of the students of Spanish in a multilingual society because together with the national language Melayo and the English language, there are percentages of the Chinese population that speak Mandarin and its different dialects: hakka, ho kian, Cantonese, etc. the Indian population speaks Tamil, the Punjabis speak Punjab and also other sectors of the population speak local languages, particularly in the States of East Malaysia which are Sabah and Sarawak where there are various languages like: Kadazan, Dusun, Bayao, Murut, Iban and many other languages spoken at the northern part of Borneo (which is the East Malaysia), as well as the local languages spoken at the peninsular Malaysia or West Malaysia.
The Population of the students who are learning Spanish language at the university is very diverse, the group involves students from the peninsula or West Malaysia and also students from East Malaysia with different backgrounds and origins and shows the attitude, responsiveness, dedication and openness to the challenges of learning Spanish language as a complete foreign language and its culture, in a country that has very few aspects in common not only linguistically but culturally.
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