@article{article_267708, title={Determinants of Language Use and Attitudes among Turkish Speakers in Flanders: A Focus on Generational Difference}, journal={Bilig}, pages={59–80}, year={2014}, author={Altınkamış, N. Feyza and Ağırdağ, Orhan}, keywords={Language attitudes, Turkish as a minority language, Flanders, language use-preference}, abstract={The focus of this research is Turkish immigrants’ language usepreference and language attitudes towards their first language, Turkish, in terms of intergenerational differences in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium. Borrowing the procedure by Yagmur and van de Vijver (2012), 136 participants were given “The Language Use, Choice and Preference Scale” and “The Attitudes to Turkish Language Scale”. As we hypothesized that social class, place of birth, gender and age would be related to attitudes to Turkish, they were considered as independent variables in the study. The results indicated that generation with length of residence was significantly associated with some variables. Also, social class was found to be a significant contributor to respondents’ attitudes towards Turkish. Gender was not a relevant category in terms of all language outcomes}, number={70}, publisher={Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University}