[Edling] The Pain of Language Loss in Families

[Jessie Curtis via Edling]

Great article, thank you!



Jessie H. Curtis, Ph.D.

Part Time Faculty

Rutgers English Language Institute

School of Arts & Sciences, Rutgers New Brunswick
Past Chair, TESOL Research Professional Council<https://www.tesol.org/advance-the-field/research>

NEW Journal of Language, Identity & Education: Vol 22, No 4 (tandfonline.com)<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hlie20/22/4?nav=tocList>

Read my work on Academia<https://rutgers.academia.edu/JCurtis>, Research Gate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jessie-Curtis>, and in
Preparing Teachers to Work with Multilingual Learners<https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/Preparing-Teachers-to-Work-with-Multilingual-Learners/?k=9781788926096> (2021)



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BBC

'I can't say my own name': The pain of language loss in families

In 2020, a nine-year-old girl was reprimanded by her teacher for speaking Turkish to her friend in the playground of their school in Germany. As punishment, she was ordered to write an essay titled: "Why we speak German in school." The resulting essay included lines such as: "We are not allowed to speak our mother tongue. So that we improve our German". Her family made a formal complaint with the support of a lawyer, who questioned whether a child speaking English during breaktime would have been punished in the same way. There is a saying among Germans of Turkish ancestry:  Turkish isn't a language you learn, Turkish is a language you forget as quickly as possible.

Full story:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230608-what-happens-when-you-cant-speak-your-parents-native-language
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