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Tytuł: | The Mother Tongue of Turkish Immigrant Children in Berlin: To Be or Not to Be? |
Autor: | Kyuchukov, Hristo |
Słowa kluczowe: | Turkish; kindergarten; mother tongue; language loss |
Data wydania: | 2018 |
Źródło: | Journal of Language & Education, Vol. 4, Iss. 4 (2018), s. 54-64 |
Abstrakt: | How do bilingual Turkish children develop their mother tongue knowledge in German
kindergartens and what are some of the difficulties they face? These are the questions which
this paper tries to answer. For this purpose, a study with Turkish kindergarten children from
Berlin, Germany was conducted.
A total of 40 children were divided into two groups between 3 and 6 years old and tested twice in
a year with the TEDIL Test1. The test consists of pictures and measures the knowledge of Turkish
nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and syntax. All of the children were tested individually
by a native Turkish speaker and by the researcher. The testing was done in the kindergarten
setting.
The results showed that the knowledge of both age groups on different grammatical categories
in Turkish was equal on the first test and there were no statistical differences. However,
during the second test the group of older children showed a decrease in their knowledge of the
grammatical categories in their mother tongue. This paper discusses the factors that influenced
the regression in the knowledge of Turkish.
This study is one of only a few on bilingual Turkish children and it presents new information
about mother tongue loss among kindergarten children, discusses the reasons, and suggests
that kindergartens and families should cooperate and work together in order to prevent mother
tongue loss from a very early age as well as its effect on the cognitive development of bilingual
children. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/8030 |
DOI: | 10.17323/2411-7390-2018-4-4-54-64 |
ISSN: | 2411-7390 |
Pojawia się w kolekcji: | Artykuły (WSiNoE)
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