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Direct linkShohamy, Elana – Review of Research in Education, 2014
The aim of this chapter is to point to the complexities of the English language in Israel from a critical perspective, its global language status, and the manners in which it affects and interacts with a variety of local issues. The main focus is on how the presence of a global language, like English, affects a given sociolinguistic reality,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role
Golan-Cook, Pnina; Olshtain, Elite – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
A theoretical model featuring the relationship between identity and language orientations within the broader constellation of variables impacting immigration and acculturation processes was proposed within the framework of the current study and its applicability was tested with regards to 152 immigrant university students from the Former Soviet…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Official Languages, Foreign Countries, Immigration
Moin, Victor; Schwartz, Mila; Breitkopf, Anna – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2011
This study analyses Russian-speaking immigrant parents' beliefs and attitudes toward the education of their children in German and Israeli bilingual kindergartens. Why did the parents chose bilingual education? Which convergences and divergences exist in parents' beliefs, expectations and attitudes toward bilingual kindergartens in Germany and…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Speech Communication, Teaching Models, Parent Attitudes
Shohamy, Elana; Kanza, Tzahi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2009
This article discusses citizenship policies in Israel within the context of language, ideology, and nationalism. According to the "Law of Return", Jewish immigrants are entitled to be granted citizenship with no prior conditions; Arabs who were living in Palestine in 1948 (the time the state was founded) and their children are entitled…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Official Languages, Foreign Countries, Jews
Peer reviewedGolden, Deborah – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2001
Addresses the links between nationalism, national identity, and migrant socialization by examining an encounter between an Israeli teacher of Hebrew and adult immigrants from the former Soviet Union within a Hebrew language class. Examination of teaching and learning revealed a particular conceptualization of learning to belong to Israeli society,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Education, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Spolsky, Bernard; Shohamy, Elana – 1999
This book focuses on the practice and ideology of the languages of Israel, examining the extent to which the present linguistic pattern may be attributed to explicit language-planning activities. The chapters give balanced analyses of the history and current status of the revitalized national language, Hebrew; of the other official language,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGlinert, Lewis H. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1995
Documents and evaluates Israel's language policy shift from its traditional Hebrew-enforcement policy to the fostering of an immigrant language as a channel of information and culture in the face of a sudden 10% addition to its population due to one-half million Soviet migrants attached to Russian culture. (33 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cultural Maintenance, Cultural Pluralism, Decision Making
Peer reviewedSpolsky, Bernard – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Israel is fertile ground for research in multilingualism. Revitalization of Hebrew resulted in a tendency for ideological and instrumentally-motivated monolingualism to replace earlier multilingual patterns, even in the context of pressure for language shift by Arabic, Russian, Yiddish, and other languages, and Hebrew's competition with English in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups
