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Tannenbaum, Michal; Abugov, Netta; Ravid, Dorit – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
This paper reports on a study conducted with children belonging to a rarely studied minority group, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel, an extremely religious group that endorses patterns of voluntary segregation. The research population also demonstrates linguistic segregation, as they use only Yiddish for daily communication with…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, German, Religious Cultural Groups, Females
Cooper, Robert L. – 1985
Modern Hebrew is an excellent example of a national language, an indigenous language that its speakers view as uniquely related to their common history, values, and identity. Hebrew was a unifying factor for millenia before the rise of modern national movements. When the movement for the restoration of Jewish political self-determination arose,…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, Group Unity
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Kheimets, Nina G.; Epstein, Alek D. – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2005
That English has become a necessary tool in the modern scientist's intellectual equipment, seems to be unquestionable nowadays. English is most likely chosen as the most convenient medium of international communication when the local academic community decides to communicate with the external world. Most Israeli scholars, including those who…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Higher Education, Language Planning, Foreign Countries
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Hallel, Michael; Spolsky, Bernard – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1992
Describes the linguistic situation in Israel and the language teaching policies and practices in Israeli schools. Policy is dominated by the ideological role and practical value of Hebrew, and is further driven by the large numbers of non-Jewish minorities, the status of English as a world language, and the political values of Arabic. (21…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Wright, Sue – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1995
Examines the question of language revitalization against the background of the use of Hebrew as the language of public life in Israel and of Irish as an official language of Ireland. Notes that the organizing principles of nationalism are complex and disputed. The different linguistic outcomes in these two countries point up the complexity and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Foreign Countries, Hebrew, Irish
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Spolsky, Bernard – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1995
Focuses on language restoration in a situation where people start again to use a language as the language of the home and to speak it to newborn children after a period when these uses were extinct. Specifically considers the conditions accounting for Hebrew language revitalization and compares this situation with efforts to revitalize the Maori…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Change Agents, Comparative Analysis, Ethnic Groups
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
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Brosh, Hezi – Foreign Language Annals, 1993
Discusses the Arabic language and the motivation to acquire the language within the Israeli setting. Examination focuses on the judicial status of Arabic and its communicative functions within the community, linguistic policy of the Israeli political center and the status of Arabic within the educational system, and attitudes toward Arabic and its…
Descriptors: Arabic, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
McCulloch, John I. B., Ed. – 1970
This newsletter discusses the teaching and role of English around the world. Articles also cover English-language media in a given country, and the opportunity and need for understanding and speaking English in that country. This particular issue contains items on English-language education and use in Malaysia, Singapore, Israel, Jordan, Tunisia,…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
Rabin, Chaim – 1976
One of the main problems Israeli language planning has focused on is the linguistic integration of newcomers and of not-so-recent immigrants whose linguistic adaptation has been slow. The bodies active in this are the Section of Adult Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of Absorption, and the Jewish Agency for Israel.…
Descriptors: Arabic, Diacritical Marking, Hebrew, Language Instruction
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Glinert, 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
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Abu-Rabia, Salim – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Studies the relationship of attitudes and cultural background to reading comprehension in a second language (L2) of students in three different social contexts: Israeli-Arab students learning Hebrew as their L2, Israeli-Jewish students learning English as their L2, and Canadian-Arab students learning English as their L2. Results showed that the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cultural Context, English, Foreign Countries
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Abu-Rabia, Salim – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Investigates the relationship of attitudes and cultural background to reading comprehension in the second language (L2) of Israeli Arab students learning Hebrew and Israeli Jewish and Canadian Arab students learning English. Results showed that the motivation of students to learning their L2 was instrumental rather than integrative, regardless of…
Descriptors: Arabs, Context Effect, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language)
British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1976
This is a summary in outline form of the English language teaching situation in Israel. In considering the situation of English in Israel, it is essential to also consider the unique linguistic and cultural situation of the country. The population of Israel comprises people of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and includes native…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, English Literature, English (Second Language)
Dorotich, Daniel, Ed. – 1981
This yearbook presents a series of articles on Canadian multicultural issues. In the first article, "Panem et Circenses? Ten Years of Multicultural Policy in Canada," Werner Stephan examines criticisms of Canadian multicultural policy and suggests the country has not found a satisfactory answer to what multiculturalism is or should be,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingualism, Compensatory Education, Cross Cultural Studies
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