Yazgül Şimşek

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yazgül Şimşek is involved.

Title

Literacy Acquisition in School in the Context of Migration and Multilingualism: A binational survey

Inken Sürig, Yazgül Şimşek, Christoph Schroeder and Anja Boness

This book presents the outcomes of a multi-methodical investigation of the processes of literacy acquisition. The focus is on mono- and bilingual first- and seventh-graders in schools in socially underprivileged areas of two major cities in Turkey and Germany. By means of extensive analyses of… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 5] 2016. xii, 297 pp.

Articles

Mehlem, Ulrich and Yazgül Şimşek 2015 Bilingual resources and school context: Case studies from Germany and Turkey Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development, Peukert, Hagen (ed.), pp. 249–274 | Article

Based on data collected in the framework of the LAS-project in primary school settings in Turkey and Germany, nominal phrase structures in the narratives of monolingual (German, Turkish) and bilingual (Turkish-German, Kurdish-Turkish) year one children were analysed under three perspectives: 1. The… read more

Şimşek, Yazgül 2011 Constructions with Turkish şey and its German equivalent dings in Turkish-German conversations: şey and dings in Turkish-German Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 191–216 | Article

An example of Turkish-German language contact and the employment of resources of Turkish in the mixed language is a construction with the dummy word şey (‘thing’). Şey occupies the position of a noun, an adverb or a verb (another verb plus the light verb yapmak ‘to do/make’) within a phrase.… read more