Determinants of Language Use and Attitudes among Turkish Speakers in Flanders: A Focus on Generational Difference

Altınkamış, N. Feyza; Ağırdağ, Orhan

doi:10.12995/bilig.2014.7003

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“…However, when emotional acculturation processes occur among children of migrant families, children may adopt a different emotional language than their parents, especially when they are confronted with the majority language from a young age. The proficiency of children in the IL increases with every new generation, usually at the cost of their proficiency in the HL (Alba et al 2002;Alba and Nee 2003;Altinkamis and Agirdag 2014;Portes and Rumbaut 2001). As a result of their linguistic acculturation, children who are more proficient in the IL might then also be more likely to adopt that IL as their emotional language.…”

Section: Language Practicementioning

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Determinants of emotional language use preferences of ethnolinguistic minority children in Antwerp, Belgium

Dekeyser

Ağırdağ

2018

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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Within multilingual families, the emotionality of languages can impact individual and family wellbeing. But few studies have investigated the influence of the familial linguistic context in shaping emotional language use preferences. Guided by the Family Language Policy framework, we consider how the language use and the language attitudes of parents, siblings and children themselves affect the emotional language use preferences of children, independent of children's proficiencies in their heritage (HL) and institutional (IL) languages. We analyse unique data from over 500 primary school children (aged 10 to 12) from Moroccan, Turkish, Eastern-European and mixed descent living in Antwerp, the largest Dutch-speaking city of Belgium. We find that children's emotional preferences are strongly affected by their proficiency in the heritage language but not their proficiency in Dutch, by their parents' and siblings' language practices but not their own practice and by children's attitudes about the relative importance of HL and IL. Overall, the results suggest that emotional language preferences of children reflect children's own acculturation process as well as that of their families.

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Section: Language Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of emotional language use preferences of ethnolinguistic minority children in Antwerp, Belgium

Dekeyser

Ağırdağ

2018

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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“…The Turkish minority is attached to their language and use Turkish extensively in their daily lives to the point that many adults do not feel the need to learn Dutch. This is the case especially for the ones who were born in Turkey (Altinkamis & Agirdag, 2014).…”

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Interactive acculturation of Turkish-Belgian parents and children in Flanders: A case study of Beringen

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Nicaise

2019

Migrat. Lett.

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This article tackles the relationship between Turkish-Belgian families with the Flemish society, within the specific context of their experiences with early childhood education and care (ECEC) system in Flanders. Our findings are based on a focus group with mothers in the town of Beringen. The intercultural dimension of the relationships between these families and ECEC services is discussed using the Interactive Acculturation Model (IAM). The acculturation patterns are discussed under three main headlines: language acquisition, social interaction and maternal employment. Within the context of IAM, our findings point to some degree of separationism of Turkish-Belgian families, while they perceive the Flemish majority to have an assimilationist attitude. This combination suggests a conflictual type of interaction. However, both parties also display some traits of integrationism, which points to the domain-specificity of interactive acculturation.

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“…Turkish households constitute the largest ethnolinguistic minority (approximately 12% of the population). Turkish shows high vitality as a primary family and community language, creating multiple opportunities for children up to the third generation to acquire and use this L1 as an everyday medium (Altinkamiş & Agirdag, 2014).…”

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The Strength of Cross‐Language Interdependence for Listening Comprehension Proficiency in Turkish–Dutch Emergent Bilinguals: Testing Three Hypotheses

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This study aimed to test three competing hypotheses concerning the strength of the cross-language relationship in listening comprehension proficiency in emergent bilinguals: Cummins's developmental linguistic interdependence hypothesis, Proctor, August, Snow, and Barr's interdependence continuum hypothesis, and Goodrich, Lonigan, Kleuver, and Farver's language independence hypothesis. We assessed 75 Turkish-Dutch bilingual children attending Dutch-medium schools using a two-wave design. This involved an assessment of sentence comprehension when the children were in preschool, followed by an assessment of their discourse comprehension in 1st grade. Correlational, multiple regression, and path analyses indicated significant positive and medium-sized L1-L2 relationships between listening comprehension proficiency at the two points in time yet not over time. These findings were consistent with the This research was supported financially by the Education Department of the City of Ghent, Belgium. We wish to thank all children, parents, and teachers who have made this investigation possible. We thank the three anonymous reviewers and Judit Kormos for their insightful and valuable suggestions. Special thanks go to

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Determinants of Language Use and Attitudes among Turkish Speakers in Flanders: A Focus on Generational Difference

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

Determinants of emotional language use preferences of ethnolinguistic minority children in Antwerp, Belgium

Determinants of emotional language use preferences of ethnolinguistic minority children in Antwerp, Belgium

Interactive acculturation of Turkish-Belgian parents and children in Flanders: A case study of Beringen

The Strength of Cross‐Language Interdependence for Listening Comprehension Proficiency in Turkish–Dutch Emergent Bilinguals: Testing Three Hypotheses

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