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| THE ROAD TO THE GERMAN LANGUAGE GOES THROUGH THE TURKISH LANGUAGE |
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Mustafa TOMBULOGLU
(Yorturk Cultural and Art Magazine-May/June 2010)
As in throughout Europe, the progressively aging population and the
decreasing birth rates in Austria are also assessed as problems. In
this case, we see that the increasingly growing foreign population
makes the immigrants more important. While the qualified immigrant
workforce has gained importance for the economy of the European
countries, continuing to discuss the issues of improving the education
conditions of the immigrant children, employment problem of the young
people who drop out school and the integration of the immigrants
constitute a contrast. In short, no solution has been found for the
education and employment problem of this population. For instance,
with a rate of 13 %, Turks are the leading group in terms of
unemployment in Austria.
According to the research, Turks are in a bad state with respect to
Austrians and the other foreigners who aren't Austrian citizens in
terms of education and employment. The research conducted by Thomas
A.Bauer from Vienna University Journalism Institute indicates that the
Turkish young people wish to have a better education but most of them
state that they have an inadequate knowledge of German language.
When having a look at the statistics, we see that the rate of those
who have passed the examination for high school graduation among the
second generation is only 4 %. While the rate of those who have
received apprenticeship training and completed middle school is 27.7 %
among foreigners, this rate is 13.8 % for people of Turkish descent.
Those figures mean as follows: It is impossible for Turkish children
who can't speak German adequately to be successful in the current
school system and to rise in the social life. Owing to the fact that
many unqualified Turkish workers who went to Austria in 60's and 70's
so as to work in that country were not considered permanent, no
policies were produced to meet the education needs of those people and
for their social integration. Thus, the immigrants of Turkish origin
have continued to live in an isolated way away from the social life in
the ghettos. Their children have also grown up in those milieus.
Three forth of the immigrants who have gone to Austria from Turkey
are in worker status and their education level is quite low. However,
the fact that those workers have not definitely returned to Turkey and
the fact that second/third generation Turks have grown up have made
the problem of education and employment more noticeable. It isn't
possible not to agree with the opinion of Efgani Donmez, the States
Assembly Member of the Greens that Austria has failed in its policies
of immigration. Donmez states that little effort has been made for
the immigrants of Turkish origin to become teachers. Turkish young
people do not have much chance to have a place in the society as
white-collared, in other words, to adjust to the society.
The official of the Minorities Initiative Cornelia Kogoj argues that
the immigrants who have jobs will integrate more easily in general.
According to Kogoj, the creation of employment areas also goes through
education. However, in the current education system in Austria,
instead of removing the inadequacies of the Turkish children in
German, various directions are resorted which cause them to be pushed
outside the society. Turkish children who have language problems are
forced to have education in the integration classes opened within the
scope of special education system for providing support to the
physically or mentally disabled students. Thus, the Turkish students
who have inadequate German are recorded as special students under
the definition of mental or physical disability. In fact, only the
disabled children should attend those classes. The fact that the
children whose report cards document them as special students who
have received education at Special School makes it impossible for them
to have professional training in their future life. Those students
can't receive professional education without the support of their
institutions because the employees do not want to admit those students
as apprentice.
Sending those children to Special Schools in the current system
does not bring any benefit other than deepening the problem. In her
book entitled the Secret Life of Languages Katharina Bizic states
that it is necessary for students of Turkish origin to know their own
native language first so as to be able to learn German well. This is
because the families whose knowledge of Turkish language and who come
from the rural areas can not transfer their children the accumulation
of knowledge which they can take as basis on the subject of language.
Thus, the child who does not know his/her own language is having
difficulty in learning a foreign language. Thus, it is definite that
the demands made by the Austrian officials that the immigrants make
more efforts to adjust to the society, will not achieve progress for
the integration of the immigrants. The education and employment
problems of the young people of Turkish origin should be solved
through scientific research without getting used as internal political
material.
While it is so essential for Turks to learn German for integration,
it is also necessary for Turkish children to have proficiency in
Turkish language in order to learn German. In short, the solution of
the Turkish students' education problem requires them to learn
Turkish.
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Posted on Tuesday, May 25 @ 15:19:53 EEST by orkun |
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