Eiffel by Najwa Ismail https://padlet.com/najwa_ismail/v52sm2o33t2j Group 2 en-us 2018-07-02 00:42:14 UTC 2018-07-03 04:09:39 UTC hello@padlet.com part 3: Methodology najwa_ismail https://padlet.com/najwa_ismail/v52sm2o33t2j/wish/269162761 1. To select city areas or streets that share the same characteristics but are placed in different cities and countries.
2. To select localities which represent the different ethnocultural communities in the same country/city.
3. Neighbourhoods selected share similarities (they are public and commercial streets situated in the hub of the city)
4. The sites represent different ethno-cultural groups typically characterised by the multilingual, multiethnic, multiracial and multinational life of Kuala Lumpur.

]]> 2018-07-02 13:48:14 UTC https://padlet.com/najwa_ismail/v52sm2o33t2j/wish/269162761 How were the data collected? najwa_ismail https://padlet.com/najwa_ismail/v52sm2o33t2j/wish/269163464 - in form of photographs
- were taken in the main roads and in the side streets.
- the coverage focused on the busiest streets regarded representative of vibrant multicultural community and commercial activities.
- the samples were also indexed as private (bottom-up) and government-related (top-down)]]> 2018-07-02 13:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/najwa_ismail/v52sm2o33t2j/wish/269163464 Number of languages on signs najwa_ismail https://padlet.com/najwa_ismail/v52sm2o33t2j/wish/269163766 1. Follows a conventional understanding of the terms as monolingual, bilingual and multilingual to denote any sign that displays either one, two, three or more than three languages irrespective of which specific language is used.
2. Multilingual signs constitute the highest proportion, bilingual are the second while monolingual are the least common.
3. The monolingual figures also include the government-related sites which are mainly written in one language, BM.
4. The private signage as a whole exhibits a large measure of bilingualism and multilingualism with 47 being monolingual while the rest 761 are either bilingual or multilingual.]]> 2018-07-02 13:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/najwa_ismail/v52sm2o33t2j/wish/269163766