Abstract
At the present time, 1.2 million foreign children of up to 16 years of age live in the Federal Republic of Germany; thus nearly one million foreign children go to German schools. By foreign children we mean the children of immigrant workers, who came to the Federal Republic of Germany in the sixties and seventies from, almost solely, Mediterranean countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey). Their mother tongue, the language of their primary socialisation, is the tongue of their respective country of origin. German is the language of their secondary socialisation, as second mother tongue or briefly second language.
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