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The Languages of Israel : Policy, Ideology and Practice

Policy, Ideology and Practice

By: Bernard Spolsky, Elana Shohamy

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Paperback | 1 September 1999

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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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Preface	p. viii
List of Tables	p. xi
Language Practice and Policy in Israel	p. 1
The Languages of Israel Today	p. 1
Historical Background	p. 7
The Inception of Hebrew Hegemony	p. 14
The Resistance to Hebrew	p. 19
Policy or Practice?	p. 24
The 1995-96 Policy for Language Education in Israel	p. 27
Organisation of this Book	p. 29
Language Policy	p. 31
What is a Language Policy?	p. 31
The Policy Agents-Who (Makes a Policy)?	p. 34
(Who Does) What?	p. 39
The Policymaking Process	p. 49
For Whom (is the Policy Intended)?	p. 50
Why? (Policy) for What Ends?	p. 51
(Policy) Under What Conditions?	p. 58
(Policy) With What Effect?	p. 61
The Language Policy Question	p. 63
Hebrew as a Mother Tongue	p. 65
The Ideological Success of Modern Hebrew	p. 65
Teaching Hebrew as a Mother Tongue	p. 73
The Israeli Educational System	p. 80
Hebrew in the Elementary Schools-The Curriculum	p. 82
Hebrew Mother Tongue Teaching in the Secondary Schools	p. 86
The Role of the Army in Hebrew Teaching	p. 89
Hebrew as a Mother Tongue-Conclusions	p. 93
Hebrew Language Acquisition and Diffusion Policies	p. 95
Can Hebrew be a Second Language?	p. 95
Hebrew for Immigrant Adults: The Development of the Ulpan	p. 96
The Role of the Army in Hebrew Language Teaching	p. 103
Hebrew for Immigrant Children	p. 103
Hebrew as a Second Language for Speakers of Arabic	p. 106
Teaching Hebrew to Speakers of ther Languages-a Field Waiting for a Profession	p. 114
Arabic-the Language of the 'Minorities'	p. 115
Minority Status	p. 115
The Arabic Language and its Status	p. 116
Arabic as a Mother Tongue in Israel	p. 123
The Languages of Non-Jewish Minorities	p. 129
Conclusions	p. 137
Teaching Arabic as a Second Language	p. 138
The Background	p. 138
Arabic in Jewish Schools	p. 147
Arabic Outside the Schools-the Universities and Colleges	p. 153
Conclusions	p. 154
English: Everybody's Second Language	p. 156
The Inexorable Spread of the English Language	p. 156
English in Israeli Schools After Independence	p. 173
English in Israeli Schools Since 1970	p. 174
English in the Arab Sector	p. 183
Evaluating the Present English Teaching Programme	p. 184
The Impinging Hegemony of English	p. 185
The Other Languages of the Immigrants	p. 187
The Pressure for Multilingualism	p. 187
Languages with Over 200,000 Speakers	p. 188
Languages with 100-200,000 Speakers	p. 196
Languages with Under 100,000 Speakers	p. 201
Languages with Under 25,000 Speakers	p. 204
Languages with Under 10,000 Speakers	p. 207
The Loss and Maintenance of Jewish Languages	p. 209
Jewish Languages	p. 209
Yiddish as a Secular Heritage Language	p. 211
Yiddish as Heritage and Community Language Among the Haredim	p. 217
Ladino as a Heritage Language	p. 227
Other Jewish Languages	p. 231
Sentiment is Not Enough	p. 232
Languages of Recent Immigrants	p. 234
Russian II (The Mass Migration)	p. 234
Amharic and other Ethiopian Languages	p. 242
The Languages of the Foreign Workers	p. 246
Challenges of the New Immigrants	p. 248
Change or Continuity	p. 249
The Beginning of Pluralism?	p. 249
The New Language Education Policy and its Implementation	p. 252
Is Hebrew an Endangered Language?	p. 254
Does Policy Matter in Israel?	p. 257
Policy, Ideology and Practice	p. 262
A Language Policy for Israel	p. 265
References	p. 268
Indexes	p. 288
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