Acquisition of Turkish of Russian-Turkish bilingual children in early childhood

Authors

  • Zeliha Yazıcı
  • Begümhan Yüksel
  • Münevver Can Yaşar

Keywords:

Bilingual and multi cultural children, bilingual environment, language focused programme, billingualism

Abstract

In this empirical study focuses on acquisition of Turkish of Russian-Turkish bilingual children in early   childhood. The population of the study includes bilingual children at the age of 5 – 6 living in Turkey/Antalya. The sampling of the study consisted of 40 Russian-Turkish bilingual children in total. (20 children are for control group and 20 children are for experiment group). During the collection of data have been used Descoeudres Dictionary Test (DDT) and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT).  Both of the groups were applied pre test and post test.  Language – Focused Curriculum (LFC) was applied to experiment group for 16 weeks. Two factor ANOVA and t test were used in the analyses of data.  As a conclusion, it was understood that LFC is effective at developing Turkish receptive, expressive language and mean length of utterance of bilingual children

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...

Author Biographies

Zeliha Yazıcı

Akdeniz University, Faculty of Educatin/ Primary school department, department of pre-school education

Begümhan Yüksel

Akdeniz University Faculty of Educatin/ Primary school department, department of pre-school education.

Münevver Can Yaşar

Afyon Kocatepe  University, Faculty of Educatin/ Primary school department, department of pre-school education

Downloads

Published

2010-03-04

How to Cite

Yazıcı, Z., Yüksel, B., & Can Yaşar, M. (2010). Acquisition of Turkish of Russian-Turkish bilingual children in early childhood. Journal of Human Sciences, 7(1), 635–646. Retrieved from https://www.j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/717

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2010)

Section

Education

License

Uluslararası İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi ISSN:1303-5134
International Journal of Human Sciences ISSN:2458-9489
 
is an "Open Access Journal" that uses a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition of open access, users take the right of read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.

Authors can retain copyright, while granting the journal right of first publication. Alternatively, authors can transfer copyright to the journal, which then permits authors non-commercial use of the work, including the right to place it in an open access archive. In addition, Creative Commons can be consulted for flexible copyright licenses.

©1999 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.