Extracurricular Peer Tutoring With Turkish-German Primary School Children: Adherence And Extent Of Bilingual Communication

The paper focusses on the implementation of extracurricular peer tutoring trainings in reading and arithmetic with Turkish-German primary school children. Two children formed a dyad and were accompanied by a trained undergraduate instructor. Adherence was used to measure the implementation of peer tutoring elements under these conditions. Some of the learners were allowed to speak both languages during the training. For bilingual communication, additional operationalizations were examined to capture its implementation. Furthermore, a consistent distinction is made between implementation by trainers and by peers. The results show high treatment adherence of extracurricular peer tutoring trainings. However, they also show that the learners communicated only little with each other in their language of origin and that more Turkish-language impulses by trainees did not correspond with more bilingual communication by the learners. The article thus provides further insights into the activation and extent of bilingual communication in cooperative learning.