通过对马来西亚三所大学近500名华侨华人学生的调查发现，马来西亚政府的国民教育政策影响了华侨华人家庭三代人接受教育的程度，影响了他们对包括汉语普通话、英语、马来语在内的几种语言的学习与使用，也影响了他们的媒体喜好和阅读习惯。绝大多数马来西亚华侨华人家庭在语言使用方面情况复杂，家庭中较好地保留了包括汉语方言在内的语言环境，马来西亚华侨华人的主要用语还是包括汉语方言在内的汉语。但汉语方言的生存空间在萎缩，汉语方言已逐步被汉语普通话替代，不再是华侨华人家庭用语的首选。马来西亚新生代华侨华人对族群语言的学习保持更为理性的态度，但对本民族的语言认同度较高，也较为坚持民族语言的传承。
A survey of nearly 500 Chinese students in three universities in Malaysia found that the Malaysian government’s national education policy affected the three generations of Chinese families to receive education，which affected their participation in Mandarin，English and Malay. The learning and use of several languages has also affected the reading habits and preferences of their media. The vast majority of Malaysian Chinese families have complicated language use，and the family still retains a good language environment including Chinese dialects. Chinese including Chinese dialects is the main language of Malaysian Chinese families. However，the living space of Chinese dialects in Chinese families is shrinking. The official language of the country of ancestral home has gradually replaced the regional language of the country of origin as the first choice for family language. The Chinese New Generation of Malaysia maintains a more rational attitude towards the study of ethnic languages，but has a higher degree of language recognition for the nation and more insists on the inheritance of the national language.
