Reporting on a linguistic ethnographic study Isil Erduyan explores multilingual identity
construction of high school students with Turkish descent enrolled in a downtown high school
(Gymnasium) in Berlin. She focuses on naturally occurring classroom interactions across German
Turkish and English classes and attends to the complex relationship between identities and
multilingual repertoires through a scalar analytical perspective. Her findings demonstrate how
multilingual students' linguistic repertoires are bound by linguistic performances within and
across multiple timescales. The study takes an innovative path by attending to the everyday
linguistic practices of a group of multilingual immigrant students with the same national
background through linguistic ethnographic lenses in the context of mainstream schooling in
Europe and by focusing on a much-understudied group namely higher achieving students of
immigrant descent enrolled in a German high school.
