Differences in Similarities: A Comparative Study on Turkish Language Achievement and Proficiency in a Dutch Migration Context
In the framework of this study, Turkish in the Netherlands has been
scrutinied 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 post-tests. 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
operationalied to evaluate the lexical and grammatical skills of
both groups.
