German for Young Turks

Topics: length of stay in the Federal Republic; attendance at a preparation class; length of daily homework; school and discipline; participation in class trip; personal attitude and assumed attitude of Germans to common or separate school attendance of German children and children of guest workers; nationality of teachers; knowledge of Turkish by German teachers; classification of the relationship to the teacher as well as to Turkish and German classmates; structure of circle of friends; place of getting to know friends; desire for more contact with Germans; reasons for possible lack of contact; detailed assessment of knowledge of German and Turkish by respondent as well as father and mother; participation of parents in a German course; watching Turkish or German videofilms; radio and television habits; frequency of listening to the radio language course ´German for young Turks´ in one´s family; degree of familiarity of the language course in personal surroundings; source of information about the language course; assessment of the truth content of information spread by the media; personal interest in German customs and assumed interest of Germans in Turkish traditions; autostereotype of Turks and heterostereotype of Germans; actual as well as preferred housing situation, measured on proportion of foreigners in an apartment house; proportion of foreigners in one´s residential area; place for leisure activities; primary communication difficulties with authorities; reference person; significance of nationality of future spouse; judgement of parents on personal adjustment conduct; contentment with life; interest in German citizenship; year of arrival of parents in the FRG; invitation of parents to a visit with Germans; general judgement on Turks by Germans; judgement on the future of Turks in the Federal Republic Germany; personal decision to remain in the Federal Republic or return to Turkey.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; family composition; age and number of siblings; number of siblings born in Germany; part of town in Cologne; year in which father or mother came to Germany; occupational position of father, age of mother (classified); employment of mother. Interviewer rating: date; school form; year of school; preparation class; number of schoolchildren in the class; number of Turkish schoolchildren in the class; other foreign schoolchildren in the class; part of town in Cologne where the school is.