The Languages of Israel: Policy, Ideology and Practice - Couverture souple

Spolsky, Bernard; Shohamy, Elana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853594512 ISBN 13 : 9781853594519

Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 1999

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Professor Bernard Spolsky (1932-2022) During his long academic career, Bernard Spolsky made significant contributions to several areas of sociolinguistics including Educational Linguistics (he initiated and named the field), second language pedagogy, language testing, language policy, and language management. He was active in studying communities in the American Southwest, New Zealand, and Israel, in which the children's home language was not the language they needed when they began school. He was particularly pleased that his first great-grandson, Noam, was being raised in Israel to understand and speak three languages.

Prof. Elana Shohamy teaches and researches in the Program for Multilingual Education at Tel Aviv University. Her areas of expertise include language policy, multilingual assessment, immigration, linguistic landscapes, and language-human rights. She authored The Power of Tests: A Critical Perspective on the Uses of Language Tests (2001) and Language Policy: Hidden Agendas and New Approaches (2006). She also edited Testing and Assessment Encyclopedia of Language and Education (Springer, 2009, 2018) and has written numerous articles and chapters on these topics. Currently, she serves as the editor of Linguistic Landscape (Benjamins) and received the ILTA Lifetime Achievement Award in Language Testing in 2010.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Multilingual Matters
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853594512
• ISBN 13: 9781853594519
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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