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'She Doesn't Speak Hebrew, She Speaks English:' A Case of Language Socialisation of a Quadrilingual Girl
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Nurit Gur-Yaish; Sujoud Hijazy; Eden Mazareeb; Mila Schwartz – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Limited research to date has addressed the language socialisation of transnational children during global movement with their parents. The aim of this study was to explore the complexity of language socialisation for a transnational child experiencing a multilingual environment both at home and in preschool. This transnational English- and…
Descriptors: Hebrew, English, Arabic, Multilingualism
The Role of Play in Creating a Language-Conducive Context in a Bilingual Preschool
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Schwartz, Mila; Hijazy, Sujoud; Deeb, Inas – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
The current study was part of a large project focusing on bilingual development in the preschool classroom context. Its aim was to theorize free play as a social and language learning activity that provides opportunities for young learners to move towards second language production. The role of free play for language development in general, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Bilingual Education
Radical Conservatism and Circumstantial Multiculturalism: Jews, Christians and Muslims in a French Catholic School in Israel
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Levy, Natalie; Monterescu, Daniel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The French Saint-Joseph school in Jaffa is one of the few educational institutions in Israel that have survived, since 1882, three political regimes without relinquishing pedagogical or managerial autonomy. This article examines the emergence of "circumstantial multiculturalism" in the midst of radical political changes in a…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Jews, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes
'How Do You Say It in Arabic, in Hebrew, in English?' Towards a Better Understanding of Children's Agentic Behaviour in Novel Language Learning
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Schwartz, Mila; Deeb, Inas; Hijazy, Sujoud – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The aim of this study was to explore patterns of children's agency enactment in second-language learning as reflected in their language learning and social interactions in a bilingual Arabic-Hebrew-speaking classroom. We examined the connection between these behaviour patterns and the children's L2 progress in the bilingual classroom. The study…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingual Education