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Mila Schwartz; Orit Dror – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Purpose: This study aimed to explore "why and how" the teachers' personal funds of knowledge and identity are connected to their classroom beliefs, knowledge, and practices. Design/methodology/approach: The study lasted one academic year (October 2021 - July 2022). We used multiple data sources, including semi-structured individual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy, Language Usage
Orner, Aviv; Netz, Hadar – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
This paper presents an ethnographic study analyzing the influence of students' social backgrounds on students' entitlement and agency in relation to floor rights. Classroom interactions were video-recorded, and interviews were conducted in a socially diverse fifth-grade in Israel. Descriptive statistics and micro-analyses of participation patterns…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Grade 5
Awayed-Bishara, Muzna – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
This article offers a critical intercultural perspective to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education inspired by Freire's conceptualisation of dialogue required in contexts where teachers must comply with hegemonic language policies. Drawing on an ethnographic study with Yusef, a Palestinian-Arab EFL teacher in Israel, I examine how…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Arabs
Schwartz, Mila; Deeb, Inas; Hijazy, Sujoud – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The aim of this study was to explore patterns of children's agency enactment in second-language learning as reflected in their language learning and social interactions in a bilingual Arabic-Hebrew-speaking classroom. We examined the connection between these behaviour patterns and the children's L2 progress in the bilingual classroom. The study…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingual Education
Dubiner, Deborah; Deeb, Inas; Schwartz, Mila – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
This study was conducted within the context of bilingual Arabic-Hebrew medium preschools in Israel which were established to incorporate instruction in the native languages of both majority and minority children in the classroom. Bilingual education in various settings produces a wide variety of outcomes in terms of language proficiency, cultural…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Change Agents, Teacher Attitudes, Semitic Languages
Mongillo, Geraldine; Kaplan, Rochelle G.; Feola, Dorothy; Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered; Abbas, Randa; Neuman, Ari – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the communicative strategies used by two effective first grade teachers whose students came from lower SES communities marked by a high incidence of school failure. One school was in Akko, Israel and one was in New Jersey in the US. In both settings, the teachers taught lessons in a language that was…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Language Usage, Semitic Languages, Communication Strategies
Avni, Sharon – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2012
While Hebrew education maintains a dominant position in Jewish educational contexts, little research has looked at what the practice of Hebrew language education looks like on a daily basis. Drawing from an 18-month ethnography of junior high school students attending a private non-Orthodox all day school, this article critically examines the ways…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Jews, Day Schools, Ethnography
Amara, Muhammed; Azaiza, Faisal; Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel; Mor-Sommerfeld, Aura – Language and Education, 2009
Under the Israeli language education policy, the mother tongue is learned first for several years, followed by a second language (English for Jews, Hebrew for Arabs) and then a third language (English for Arabs, Arabic/French for Jews). This type of limited bilingualism seems to suit the Israeli reality in the context of the Israeli-Arab conflict,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Jews, Bilingual Education, Conflict
Multi-User Domain Object Oriented (MOO) as a High School Procedure for Foreign Language Acquisition.
Backer, James A. – 1999
Foreign language students experience added difficulty when they are isolated from native speakers and from the culture of the target language. It has been posited that MOO (Multi-User Domain Object Oriented) may help overcome the geographical isolation of these students. MOOs are Internet-based virtual worlds in which people from all over the real…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers