sum singapore english content length couple week ago ask follow question many regard s pore english native english however many speaker here grow speak english ie acquire english first language though certainly somewhat different variety english speak britain america respect currently accept classify singapore english particular possible native language first language three respondant believe singapore english regard native first language learn while three suggest native connotation suggest term english singapore thus anthea fraser gupta strongly feel term native language refer language s individual first learn definition base race ancestral language geographical origin untenable debbie ziegeler agree view most believe classify first language native language mother tongue anthea gupta mind english singapore native speaker approximately singapore s income schoolchildren english native language ms faridah hudson believe language learn child first language consider native language grant singapore english study british american english still form english hand wen chao li claim suggest native refer linguistic experience individual word native here refer whether speak variety native language convenient label distinguish english britain us where language originate native sense english place singapore indium many country africa where although english widely speak native language language transplant another language introduce rather one s culturally historically native mario cal varelum suggest term localize form english variety singapore expression localize form english often refer variety english develop peculiar characteristic nativize feature cultural setting different socal native english rodrik wade prefer english term popularise introduce platt weber ho se similar variety english english term write south african black english although yet variety few l speaker thank respondant alan firth benny lee useful reference umberto question pronunciation involve special thanks mentor david deterd introduce list help summary kia sheng chew national technological university singapore af nievax nie ac sg 