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Title

Differences in similarities : a comparative study on Turkish language achievement and proficiency in a Dutch migration context / Mustafa Güleç.

Author

Güleç, Mustafa.

Publication

Amsterdam : Aksant Academic Publishers, 2007.

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Description

x, 311 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In the framework of this study, Turkish in the Netherlands has been scrutinized in a migration context from educational, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives. Language achievement in Turkish of immigrant Turkish youngsters living in the Netherlands has been assessed during their first year of Dutch secondary education, within a longitudinal design of written pre- and posttests. Within a cross-sectional and cross-national design, language proficiency in Turkish has been measured for a Turkish core group in the Netherlands in comparison with a Turkish reference group in Turkey. Receptive and productive psycholinguistic dimensions have been operationalised to evaluate the lexical and grammatical skills of both groups." "The Turkish community in the Netherlands is currently counting its third generation after more than 40 years of migration. At first sight, Turkish of the bilingual group in the Netherlands shows essential similarities with Turkish of the monolingual group in Turkey. However, a close look at the core of the phenomenon yields interesting differences within these similarities."--Jacket

Series Statement

Studies in meertaligheid = Studies in multilingualism ; no. 8

Uniform Title

Studies in meertaligheid (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; no. 8.

Subject

• Spracherwerb
• Turkish language > Netherlands > Acquisition
• Turks > Netherlands > Language
• Türken
• Türkisch
• Niederlande

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-285).

Language (note)

• Summary in Dutch; main text in English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Design of the main study -- 4. Standardization of the curriculum-dependent test -- 5. Standardization of the curriculum-independent test -- 6. Language achievement in longitudinal perspective -- 7. Language proficiency in crossnational perspective -- 8. Observational reports -- 9. Qualitative analysis of the data -- 10. Conclusions and discussion -- App. 1. Suffixes and abbreviations -- App. 2. Utilized test in the main study.

ISBN

• 9789052602615
• 9052602611

OCLC

185032344

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library