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Russak, Susie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Israel has two official languages: Hebrew and Arabic, and one semi-official language, English. Within this multilingual environment, the national English curriculum relates to all learners as one homogenous population. There are no specific directives regarding the linguistic needs of diverse language backgrounds. Studies of literacy acquisition…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Shohamy, 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
Canestrari, Alan S., Ed.; Marlowe, Bruce A., Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2018
"The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Foundations" features international scholars uniquely qualified to examine issues specific to their regions of the world. The Handbook provides readers with an alternative to the traditional texts in the foundations of education by taking aim at the status quo, and by offering frameworks…
Descriptors: Foundations of Education, Educational Change, Teaching (Occupation), Curriculum
Arya, Diana J.; McClung, Nicola A.; Katznelson, Noah; Scott, Lyn – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
Social psychologists have suggested that language-based ideologies related to "stereotype threat" (i.e. variations in performance-based on ability perceptions of language groups) may affect students' academic achievement regardless of school language support. However, it is unclear whether efforts to support students' first language…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, Language Attitudes, Stereotypes, Achievement Tests
Al-Fityani, Kinda – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines a project to unify sign languages across twenty-two Arab countries. Proponents of the project, mainly pan-Arab governmental bodies with the support of members of the staff at the Al Jazeera satellite network, have framed the project as a human rights effort to advance the welfare of deaf Arab people. They have urged its…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Official Languages, Deafness, Arabs
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
Tannenbaum, Michal; Abugov, Netta – Heritage Language Journal, 2010
This study examined linguistic patterns in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, a group that has rarely been studied from a sociolinguistic perspective. Participants were 92 girls, 10-12 years old, who attend a school where Yiddish is the language of instruction and Hebrew, Israel's official language, is studied only in religious…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Minorities, Language Usage, Jews

Fishman, Joshua A.; Fishman, David E. – International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1974
Descriptors: Hebrew, Language Planning, Language Usage, Monolingualism

Fishman, Joshua A.; Fishman, David E. – Linguistics, 1974
Article also appeared in "International Journal of the Sociology of Language," n1; research supported by the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Ford Foundation, and The Language Behavior Secion, Hebrew University. (DD)
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Planning, Language Standardization, National Norms

Golden, 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
Kheimets, Nina G.; Epstein, Alek D. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
This paper presents sociological analysis of the linguistic and cultural identity of two of Israel's most influential and high-ranked universities during their formative years, that were also the "de facto" formative years of the Israeli state-in-the-making (1924-1948). We argue that the influence of external universal factors on a…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Jews, Official Languages, Foreign Countries

Nadel, Elizabeth; And Others – Anthropological Linguistics, 1977
This study of the role and use of English in Israel was conducted in 1973. Sources used were census figures, personal interviews, surveys, and personal observations. It is concluded that exposure to English is increasing and that Israelis do not seem opposed to this, as Hebrew retains its prominence. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Language Instruction, Language Planning

Gold, David L. – Language Problems & Language Planning, 1981
Surveys the legal status of English in Israel before and since the country became independent, attitudes toward the language, its use in schools and by the media, the influence of English on Hebrew, the kinds of English used, and related topics. Since 1948, English has played an increasingly greater role. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Hebrew, Indo European Languages