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2 - Become a Teacher-Researcher to Find Your Turkish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2022

By
Mehmet-Ali Akinci
Edited by
Gail Prasad ,
Nathalie Auger  and
Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman
Gail Prasad
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
Nathalie Auger
Affiliation:
University of Montpellier
Emmanuelle Le Pichon Vorstman
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

Mehmet- Ali Akinci begins by reminding us how schools in France at the beginning of the 20th century punished students caught speaking a dialect by forcing them to clean the toilets because they “had shit in their mouths!” Coming from a family of traditional immigrants from Turkey, he shows how “immigrant origin” often appears in the common imagination as a factor explaining their failure at school. His psycholinguistic background is marked by his fight against discrimination and glottophobia at school.

Keywords

inclusive schooldiscriminationsbi-plurilingualismlanguage identityBasic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)Cognitive and Academic Language Skills (CALP)minority childrenimmigrant families
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Multilingualism and Education
Researchers' Pathways and Perspectives
 , pp. 12 - 19
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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