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Schwartz, Mila – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The aim of this exploratory study was to examine the role of the "First Language First" model for preschool bilingual education in the development of vocabulary depth. The languages studied were Russian (L1) and Hebrew (L2) among bilingual children aged 4-5 years in Israel. According to this model, the children's first language of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Semitic Languages, Russian, Preschool Children
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Kahn-Horwitz, Janina – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
English foreign language (EFL) literacy achievement is a major challenge for EFL pupils in Israel. To better understand this challenge, this study used a quantitative approach to examine differences between experienced and preservice EFL teachers' content knowledge of the English orthography and the impact of a semester course on this knowledge. A…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Statistical Analysis