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1. Cognitive and Language Skills of Turkish Children in Germany: A Comparison of the Second and Third Generation and Mixed Generational Groups.

Author

Becker, Birgit

Subjects
*GERMAN language, *COGNITIVE ability, *CHILDREN of immigrants, *IMMIGRANT families, *CHILDREN of minorities, *IMMIGRANTS, *GENERATION gap, *PRESCHOOL children, *EDUCATIONAL attainment, *EDUCATION, *EMIGRATION & immigration, ACQUISITION
Abstract

The paper compares several generational groups of Turkish children in Germany with respect to cognitive skills and German language skills at an early age. Empirically, children of inter-marriages outperform the other groups of Turkish children in both tests while children with a first generation mother and a second generation father score worse than all others. All group differences regarding children's cognitive skills can be explained by the families' socio-economic status and educational resources. In contrast, with respect to children's language skills also parents' endowment with receiving country specific resources ( e.g., parental German language proficiency) needs to be taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2011
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