Özet:

In recent years, Turkish population in the United States as in Europe has increased substantially. Strong pressures from the American culture and language have commonly led to weakening and even the extinction of Turkish language and culture especially in the second generation of children with native language is Turkish. In this study, use of Turkish language of second-generation Turkish children living in the United States, communications with their families and cultural elements in those communications, their language and cultural conflicts, as well as their families do to maintain their native language and culture were examined. For this purpose, the case study method was used in qualitative research methods. Communications between a Turkish family and their 5 and 11 years old children were being observed in a certain period of time and the written notes were taken. Unstructured interviews were conducted with Turkish family and children and documents were also examined to support the findings. Results of the study indicate that: 1) Despite the efforts of families to maintain and protect the native language, English is widely used among second-generation Turkish children, 2) the second generation of children have the problem of acculturation and language and culture conflict, 3) the cultural inconsistency between family and children; 4) educational institutions are the determining factor in the transmission of language and culture.

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