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Bilingual Kindergarten Programmes: the Interaction of Language Management and Language Attitudes

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A kindergarten with a trilingual concept promoting the languages Turkish, Kurdish and English was opened in Cologne two years ago. When an article1 about this kindergarten was published in the local newspaper and its online version there were many critical comments similar to the following:

a joke. This can only be a joke. German and English are alright with me but why should anyone teach a child Turkish or Kurdish? Has it already come to this that these languages are more important than German? Why don’t they teach the children the Koran as well? We live in Germany.2

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Rothe, A., Wagner, K. (2015). Bilingual Kindergarten Programmes: the Interaction of Language Management and Language Attitudes. In: Davies, W.V., Ziegler, E. (eds) Language Planning and Microlinguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137361240_2

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