The Impact on Language Maintenance and Studies Among Third- and Fourth-Generation Turkish Students in Melbourne, in the Era of COVID-19

The research into the maintenance of Turkish language amongst third- and fourth-generation students enrolled study heritage is part a greater ethnographic on Family Language Policy (FLP) second- third-generation parents in Melbourne, Australia. The investigated strategies implemented by families promoting choice methods towards practices language. The also begins to reveal impact declining enrolment numbers its maintenance. Data was collected beliefs forty-five bilingual through participant observation in-depth interviews intergenerational family members including parents, children, grandparents. The current stemmed from initial investigate an extensive element specific subsequent instigated during COVID-19 pandemic, whereby school closures remote learning were prominent. Families with took online chat forum discussing onsite had studies continued numbers. Whilst home remains for most migrant communities main domain maintenance, formal education offer additional platform derived practice as further strategy policy planning. The findings that whilst once foundation essential implementations first-generation raising their children bilingual; data reflects shift generations follow second-generation Turkish. The factor preference maintenance.