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Judith Yoel – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This research examines the dominant language constellations (DLC) of multilingual, immigrant teacher trainees in Israel. The seven participants in this study from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have resided in Israel for 2-4 years. This qualitative research, conducted through a narrative method, reveals that while they possess different language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Hebrew
Blake, Charles Carlos, III – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The number of refugees from Africa seeking asylum in Israel has recently skyrocketed, raising issues as to how to integrate them into Israeli society. Education is one of the mediums being used to encourage the cultural integration and inclusion of the refugees into Israeli society; very little is known, however, about how Africans are…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Ethnography, Coding, Classification
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Golan-Cook, Pnina; Olshtain, Elite – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
A theoretical model featuring the relationship between identity and language orientations within the broader constellation of variables impacting immigration and acculturation processes was proposed within the framework of the current study and its applicability was tested with regards to 152 immigrant university students from the Former Soviet…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Official Languages, Foreign Countries, Immigration
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Horowitz, Tamar – Education and Society, 2012
This paper examines the integration of Russian children and youth into education and society in Israel. It focuses on four central aspects: the character of the immigrant community in Israel, the function and structure of the family, governmental policy, school experience, and identity formation.
Descriptors: Risk, Social Integration, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
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Geiger, Brenda – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This qualitative study addresses the issue of the cultural transition of Arab women who for the first time leave their secluded villages and traditional society in the Northern Galilee to access Western-style Israeli institutions of higher education located in the region in which they will study in Hebrew, their second language. This study uses…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Females, Student Attitudes, Muslims
Alatis, James E., Ed.; Tan, Ai-Hui, Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers includes the following: "Introduction to the Volume" (James E. Alatis); "Adults Learning To Read in a Second Script: What We've Learned" (David L. Red); "Trends in Peace Corps Volunteer Language Proficiency" (Margaret E. Malone); "Evidence for the Greater Ease of Use of the ILR Language…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Acculturation, Adult Learning, Asian Americans