A study on the identity of Korean descendants in Germany

Eğitim Dili Türkçe ve İngilizce Olan Bölüm Öğrencilerinin Ana Dili İngilizce Olanlara Karşı Olan Algılanan Sosyal Uzaklıkları

“…In contrary to the finding in the literature that gender is an effective factor in acculturation (Choi, 2014;Güler, 2016;Saygın & Hasta, 2018), the present study indicated that the male and female university students of the Turkish-and English-medium departments did not differ from each other in terms of acculturation. It may be because both male and female students can have similar opportunities to reach the content related to the English culture on the internet (e.g., videos, pictures, blogs, radios, newspapers, magazines, and so on), can be affected by the English instruction in their departments to the similar extents, and can be equally interested in and motivated to learn the English culture.…”

“…Like gender and knowing another language besides English, the job status of the family members (parents and siblings) did not lead to any statistically significant difference in the university students in this study though Choi (2014) revealed that familial factors like parents' birthplaces and mother's reason for immigration affected acculturation. This can be explained by the characteristics of Generation Z whose members the participants in this study are.…”

“…The study indicated that if motives and goals are congruent with each other, ESL learners get acculturated more. In another study, Choi (2014) studied what affected the acculturation process of the Korean descendants in Germany by approaching acculturation as the proficiency and use of Korean and German in Germany. The findings of the study showed that the mother's reason for immigration, mother's level of education, gender and parents' place of origin could help to predict the patterns of language integration of the descendants.…”