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Miriam Minkov; Dorit Aram – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Today, many children worldwide grow up in bilingual or multilingual families. This study explores early literacy development in Russian-Hebrew bilingual families in Israel. It studies the contribution of the home literacy environment (HLE), the language of communication, and the nature of the maternal writing support in Hebrew and Russian, to…
Descriptors: Hebrew, Russian, Bilingualism, Emergent Literacy
Ronald Shabtaev; Joel Walters; Sharon Armon-Lotem – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Mountain Jewish immigrants to Israel from the Eastern Caucasus used two heritage languages, Juhuri (Judeo-Tat) and Russian. Juhuri was their home and Russian the societal languages prior to migration. In Israel, Juhuri and Russian are Heritage Languages and Hebrew is the societal language. The present study reports on frequency of use and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Generational Differences, Native Language
Orly Haim – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examines the role of age of arrival (AoA) in immigrant students' perceived multilingual proficiency. Additionally, the study investigates the demographic, linguistic and social-psychological variables distinguishing young-arriving immigrants from their middle and older-arriving peers. The sample included 274 eleventh grade Russian (L1)…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Proficiency, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
Carmit Altman; Sveta Fichman; Noy Perry; Pola Osher; Joel Walters – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: We examined the role of narrative microstructure (production of words and sentences) and narrative macrostructure (organization of events) in the use of internal state terms (ISTs) in narratives of bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD) in their school language (SL). Method: Fifty-eight Russian-Hebrew bilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Tanya Voinova – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
The war in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, has led to a significant civilian involvement in Israel, particularly among immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who began to provide humanitarian assistance, including interpreting. Highlighting the interrelation between translation and migration, I argue that the war strongly affects…
Descriptors: Russian, Translation, Foreign Countries, War
Carmit Altman; Zhanna Burstein-Feldman; Sveta Fichman; Sharon Armon-Lotem; Susan Joffe; Joel Walters – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Israel's population includes over a million Russian-speaking immigrants and more than 300,000 native English speakers. These groups differ in social integration and in the status of their heritage languages in Israel. We compared children's and parents' perceptions of children's identities, language abilities, and language preferences among…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Proficiency, Hebrew, Russian
Larissa Remennick; Anna Prashizky – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The research on language dynamics in the context of migration and integration has been dominated by applied linguists and educators, who described and measured native language attrition and emerging bilingualism among immigrants and their children. In parallel, sociolinguists discussed the role of language ideology/policy of the host society and…
Descriptors: Hebrew, Russian, Immigrants, Language Usage