Introduction: The purpose of this study is to determine the problems of primary and secondary school teachers about foreign students and propose solutions to these problems. Methods: In the research, qualitative research method was conducted. Primary and secondary school teachers who had at least one foreign student in their class and volunteered…

Language disorders, and Specific Language Impairment (SLI), have been extensively studied in a number of different, though thus far almost exclusively Indoeuropean, languages. For other languages such as Turkish, Vietnamese, or Arabic, however, findings on the outcome of SLI are rare. In this context, the growing number of migrant children in…

This dissertation investigates the media's portrayal of the linguistic situation of the predominantly Turkish migrant communities in Germany by analyzing data gathered from films, television clips, interviews, radio clips and the Internet, paying specific attention to the vowel systems of each speaker. I observe that the most salient aspect in…

In a bilingual context, the mother tongue plays a key role in a child's social and personal development, in education and in second-language learning. There is a complex relationship between these three areas. Support for children receiving education through a second language is often in the form of additional learning opportunities in the second…

In 1970, the Special Representative's Advisory Committee of the Council of Europe requested from the member countries that workers and their families wishing to emigrate to another European country should learn the language of the country to which they are going. Therefore, Turkey organised practical German courses for the emigrant workers,…

Since 1960, approximately 733,000 Turkish workers have migrated to European countries. One issue before the Turkish Government is adequately educating children of Turkish migrant workers in other countries. There are more than 117,000 children who are expected to retain their traditional Turkish culture while adjusting themselves to the host…

The number of migrant workers Turkey has sent to foreign countries has now reached approximately 1 million. Educational level of these workers is: 67 percent - primary school education; 24 percent - secondary school education; and 9 percent - high school education. However, 98 percent of these workers do not know the language of the country to…

This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…