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Publication details [#55063]

Bekerman, Zvi and Maureen Rajuan. 2011. Teachers' ‘inside’ reports on language instruction in the Palestinian–Jewish Schools in Israel. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 32 (5) : 465–479.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | education | language dominance | language politics | language status

Language as a subject

Arabic | Hebrew

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Drawing on teachers' 'inside' reports, this study argues that language instruction in the bilingual-integrated Palestinian–Jewish Schools in Israel, reflects the dominance of Hebrew in Israeli society, to the detriment of Arabic language acquisition.