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Education in Singapore is set against a background that is ethnically, linguistically and culturally diverse. Singapore’s deliberate language policy and planning saw the birth of English-knowing bilinguals who are proficient in both English and their ethnically ascribed mother tongues. This has given rise to Singaporeans whose English proficiency level allows them to be globally competent and whose use of English in the local context has also led to the development of Singapore Englishes (i.e. Standard Singapore English and Colloquial Singapore English or Singlish) operating together in what Low and Pakir describe as the Cline of Glocality. Adopting the Global Englishes paradim, this article discusses how language teacher education needs to be rethought in order to capture the nuancing in the uses of Singapore Englishes in order to achieve the delicate balance between global competence of its users and the local realities surrounding its use. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Situated in Southeast Asia, Singapore's sociolinguistic situation has undergone several changes due to active language planning policies, with English and Mandarin becoming the two socio-politically majority languages in Singapore society. Over time, this has led to the restricted usage of various non-Mandarin dialects, including Teochew, both in public settings and within the home. This paper examines how Teochew, a heritage language in Singapore, has been affected in its vocabulary usage in apparent time. The data was collected from 41 Teochew male and female speakers aged 12-86 years. This paper contributes theoretically by showing the properties of a heritage language, Singapore Teochew, in an environment with multiple shifts of several major languages in Southeast Asia, instead of the more common situation of one major language shift.