Code Switching in Malaysia

The Editors: Maya Khemlani David is currently Head of the Section for Co-Curricular Activties, Elective Courses by Other Faculties and TITAS (SKET), University of Malaya (Malaysia). She has published in reputable journals like the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and Multilingua and has edited Language and the Power of the Media (2006, Frankfurt, Peter Lang), and Teaching of English in Second and Foreign Language Settings: Focus on Malaysia (2004, Frankfurt, Peter Lang). James McLellan is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Waikato, Hamilton (New Zealand). He worked at University Brunei Darussalam from 1989-2002. He holds a Ph.D. from Curtin University of Technology, Perth (Australia). His research interests include Malay-English code switching, Language Maintenance and Shift in Borneo, and South-East Asian varieties of English. Shameem Rafik-Galea is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, University Putra Malaysia. Her research interests are in the area of Management Communication, Organisational Business Discourse, English for Specific Purposes and Sociolinguistics. She has published and presented papers in her areas of interest. Ain Nadzimah Abdullah teaches at the University Putra Malaysia. Her research interest is primarily in language planning and policy, but she has also worked on bilingualism and language choice. A long-standing focus has been the diglossic relationship between Malay and English in Malaysia.