The Views of Turkish Students Coming from France and Belgium towards Turkish Language: Anadolu University Sample Cover Image

Fransa ve Belçika’dan Gelen Türk Öğrencilerin Türkçeye İlişkin Görüşleri: Anadolu Üniversitesi Örneği
The Views of Turkish Students Coming from France and Belgium towards Turkish Language: Anadolu University Sample

Author(s): Cihan Aydoğu, Bahtinur Gündoğdu, Meltem Ercanlar
Subject(s): Language acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Higher Education , Migration Studies, Phenomenology, Philology, Sociology of Education, Turkic languages
Published by: T.C. MEHMET AKİF ERSOY ÜNİVERSİTESİ EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ
Keywords: migration; mother tongue acquisition; return migration; second language; phenomenology;

Summary/Abstract: After World War II, Western European countries needed guest workers and a significant number of Turkish citizens has migrated to these countries. After a while, Turkish citizens started to be permanent, as they became to found their own families. However, some problems occurred, the most important ones were the integration in the country where they were and children’s education problems. These immigrant children’s education problem was the result of their insufficiency in their mother tongue. Immigrant children who have not yet acquire their mother tongue skills cannot learn a second language efficiently. The last few years a return migration has been observed. The main reason for this return migration are children returning with their family, returning for marriage, for education, for a better life style and escape. This qualitative research aims to describe the views of Turkish immigrant students, who were born in France and Belgium and returned to Turkey, towards Turkish language.

  • Issue Year: 6/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-16
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Turkish
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