176 pages
228mm x 145mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 318 6
ISBN-13: 978 185856 318 3
February 2005

This is the book that teachers and others working with Turkish speaking children and young people have long needed. The author's academic rigour combined with his insider knowledge of family, culture and work, affords readers real understanding of a community which has been in Britain for half a century, but about which there is little research and for whom there is scant learning support.

Part 1 outlines the backgrounds of the Turkish speakers - their immigration and employment patterns - and examines their community and economic activities in some depth. Part 2 is devoted to children's language and the ways in which they use and acquire both Turkish and English in real-life situations in their families and family businesses, and in their communities. From his analysis of these processes the author identifies what teachers need to know to develop these children's language skills at school and so enhance their academic attainment.

Talking Turkey will be essential reading for all who work with Turkish speakers and will be of interest to teacher trainers, educational policy makers and to the Turkish communities.

Dr Tözün Issa teaches in the School of Education, London Metropolitan University.

This book is useful for those who work with Turkish speakers as well as for teacher trainers, educational policy makers and Turkish communities. - Sage Race Relations Abstracts