Del 17 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism

Languages of Israel

Policy Ideology and Practice

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

Av Bernard Spolsky, Elana Shohamy

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This book is an original and comprehensive treatment of the languages of Israel – of the practice and of the ideology. Against the background of an original theory of language policy set out in the opening, it asks about 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 second official language Arabic, of the all-pervasive international language English, of the large number of immigrant languages brought to Israel, and in particular of the fate of the many Jewish languages. This is all tied together with a reasoned account of the new language education policy, and a consideration of the likelihood that the long hegemony of Hebrew is giving way to an evolving acceptance of linguistic diversity.

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Utgivningsdatum1999-10-25
Mått148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt405 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBilingual Education & Bilingualism
Antal sidor312
FörlagChannel View Publications Ltd
ISBN9781853594519

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Bernard Spolsky is professor of English at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and director of its Language Policy Research Center. His most recent book is Sociolinguistics (Oxford), and he is currently editing the Concise Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics (Elsevier).Elana Shohamy is professor of Education at Tel Aviv University and has been director of research at the National Foreign Language Center in Washington. Her book Second Language Research Methods (Oxford) is a classic, and she is just finishing The Power of Tests: A Critical Perspective (Longmans).

PrefaceList of Tables1 Language Practice and Policy in Israel2 Language Policy3 Hebrew as a Mother Tongue4 Hebrew Language Acquisition and Diffusion Policies5 Arabic – the Language of the ‘Minorities’6 Teaching Arabic as a Second Language7 English: Everybody’s Second Language8 The Other Languages of the Immigrants 9 The Loss and Maintenance of Jewish Languages10 Languages of Recent Immigrants11 Change or ContinuityReferencesIndex