Perceptions of pre-servi̇ce Turkish language teachers studying at Duisburg/Essen University towards the concept of bilingualism

Since the beginning of 1960's, Turkey has experienced a huge migration of workers to Europe, in particular to Germany. As a result of this migration, as a natural result of immigration has emerged a generation of bilingual and bicultural. Changing the size of the communication and information flow between people occurred in parallel to the advances in science and technology has affected the social life, and bilingual or multilingual people has been recognized as a wealth indicator. Language education policies that supporting bilingualism or multilingualism aims enabling people to realize their development potential in the cultural aspects and evaluate this potential in a positive direction. In a globalized world, knowing at least two or more languages is considered the requirements of our age. Because of education system in Germany vary by state, with the Huber's phrase of 'migration childrens' (2008) Turkish education sometimes is provided by experts by the Ministry of Education and sometimes is carried out by Turkish teachers studying at Departmant of Turkistik at Duisburg/Essen University, which takes great pains to educate Turkish teachers in Germany. For both to be bilingual and witness the problems experience by Turkish origin people living in Germany during the Turkish education, Turkish teachers educated in Turkistik departmant play a major and active role in giving Turkish education to Turkish speakers in Germany. Based on this idea, putting forward the views of abroad trained Turkish teacher candidates on bilingual notion, will allow that prospective teachers who will give Turkish education, to detect of both Turkish and German perspectives on the state of bilingualism in both cases. This assesment will give us an opinion about what should be done in order to bring up more healthy and balanced Turkish-German bilingual individuals. In this context, the subject of the research is 'Perception's of Pre-service Turkish Language Teachers Studying at Duisburg/Essen University Towards the Concept of Bilingualism'. In the study, Turkish teacher candidates are assumed to provided sincere and accurate answers to measuring tools applied during the investigation. The research sample is including thirty-four students of Duisburg/Essen University, Department of Turkistik. As a part of the research domestic and foreign literature relevant to subject are scanned and earlier studies on subject are examined. The scope and content of the research was carried out in accordance with the qualitative research methods. Qualitative data were obtained as a result of interviews with students between 01-08 December 2015. Content analysis of call records, that is, qualitative research data was analyzed using categorical analysis. In categorical analysis first data was encoded, then codes at the global level that describes the categories determined, and the findings were interpreted. KeyWords: Bilingualism, Migration, Monolingualism, Multiculturalism, Turkish Education.