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Peer reviewedAbu-Rabia, Salim – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1999
Investigates the social attitudes toward the Hebrew language and Israeli society and the academic skills in Russian and Hebrew of 60 Russian-Jewish immigrant high school students in Northern Israel. Addresses the linguistic social context in Israel and provides a literature review. Presents and discusses the results. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Foreign Countries, Hebrew, High School Students
Peer reviewedAllalouf, Avi; Hambleton, Ronald K.; Sireci, Stephen G. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1999
Focused on whether differential item functioning (DIF) is related to item type in translated test items and the causes of DIF using data from an Israeli college entrance test in Hebrew and a Russian translation. Results from 24,304 college applicants indicate that 34% of items functioned differently across items. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Entrance Examinations, Foreign Countries, Hebrew
Peer reviewedEllinger, Bonnie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2000
Investigated the relationship among identity, affective variables, and achievement in English as a foreign language (EFL). Participants were 135 native Hebrew speakers and 53 native Russian speakers studying advanced EFL at an Israeli university. Results showed that ethnolinguistic identity was a greater predictor of achievement than any of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, English (Second Language), Ethnolinguistics
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
