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Publication details [#34877]

Ben-Rafael, Eliezer and Hezi Brosh. 1991. A sociological study of second language diffusion: The obstacles to Arabic teaching in the Israeli school. Language Problems and Language Planning 15 (1) : 1–24.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | language policy | second language acquisition | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Arabic | Hebrew

Place, Publisher

University of Texas

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This paper argues that linguistic policies, features of linguistic groups and linguistic capital values make up the interacting aspects of second language diffusion in schools. It applies this perspective to the case of Arabic teaching in Israeli schools.