International Journal of Human Sciences, Vol 7, No 1 (2010)

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

Zeliha Yazıcı, Begümhan Yüksel, Münevver Can Yaşar

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

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