ERIC Number: EJ1257042
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 15
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"I Mean, I Like English Even Better than Turkish": English-Speaking German-Turkish Students as Multilingual Transnationals
Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, v5 n2 p255-269 2019
Focusing on a group of multilingual German-Turkish students enrolled at an urban high-school in Berlin, this paper inquires how ELF identities and transnational experiences inform each other. Semi-structured, audio-recorded interviews conducted as part of a larger project (Erduyan, 2019) are analyzed through microethnographic lenses informed by a scalar approach. Following Lam (2009) and Maloney & De Costa (2017) the analyses focus on the "local," "translocal," and "transnational" scales that permeate students' narratives. Findings suggest that being ELF users/speakers helps Turkish students fill in a gap that they perceive they cannot fill in by being Turkish or German speakers alone, that of being cosmopolitan, global citizens with transnational experience. Findings also suggest the changing meanings of homeland for Turkish students--from the traditional, monolingual, provincial Turkey to a more urban, cosmopolitan Turkey. The inevitable implications of these changes for identity construction are discussed further in the article.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Urban Schools, High School Students, English (Second Language), German, Turkish, Language Usage, Immigrants, Cultural Influences, Place of Residence, Urban Areas
Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Anafartalar Campus Faculty of Education Department of Foreign Language Education, Canakkale 07100, Turkey. e-mail: editor@ejal.info; Website: https://www.ejal.info/index.php/ejal
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany (Berlin); Turkey (Istanbul)
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