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KA201 - Strategic Partnerships for School Education
The Universal Language of Mathematics (2018-1-TR01-KA201-059704)

Girls Boys

Family 1,74 > 1,48
Refugee Friends 1,77 < 1,9
Teachers 2,54 ≈ 2,62
Turkish Friends 2,57 < 2,69
Table – 4: Refugee students’ talking frequency in Turkish. (Note-1: How often do you speak Turkish with your
family, native friends, teachers and Turkish friends? 3-Always, 2-Sometimes, 1-Rarely.
Note-2: The sign ≈ means that the difference is not statistically significant.)

For both refugee boys and girls, there is a big difference between Turkish communication frequency of
RS with refugee friends and communication frequency of RS with Turkish friends (Table-3). In national
Turkish middle schools, RS differentiate their Turkish friends with their refugee friends and tend to
communicate with their refugee friends in their native language. This fact is more apparent for refugee
girls (Table-4).
The lowest Turkish communication frequency of RS is naturally with their families. In cases of Turkish
communication with Turkish friends, teachers and refugee friends, refugee boys have higher frequency
relative to girls. But in case of Turkish communication with families, refugee boys have lower frequency
than girls. Refugee girls do not distinguish their families from their refugee friends whose native
language is same as their native language in their Turkish communication preference. But refugee boys
differentiate their families from their refugee friends. Although their refugee friends and families have
the same native language, refugee boys prefer less Turkish communication with their families. In family
communication, refugee girls tend to use Turkish more than boys.

Refugee Students Girls Boys

How often do you Always 70% < 79%
speak Turkish with your Sometimes 17% > 11%
Turkish friends? Rarely 13% ≈ 10%

Table – 5: Refugee students’ talking frequency in Turkish with their Turkish friends.

Turkish Students Girls Boys

How often do you Always 49% > 43%
speak Turkish with your Sometimes 32% ≈ 31%
refugee friends? Rarely 19% < 26%

Table – 6: Turkish students’ talking frequency in Turkish with their refugee friends.
(Note: The sign ≈ means that the difference is not statistically significant.)

Refugee and Turkish students’ frequency of talking in Turkish with each other is reported in Table-5
and Table-6, respectively. 79% of RS boys always talk to Turkish friends in Turkish and only 10% of
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