Article: The learning of Hebrew by Israeli Arab students in Israel.

Bilingualism, or even multilingualism, is a reality in the education of children in many areas of the world. As a result of immigration or ethnic background, many children in the first few years of life learn to speak one language and then learn another language in school, the majority language of their new country or province. Learning a new language is a social phenomenon; consequently, social practice and social context may render the learning environment of the second language (SL) either supportive or unsupportive. I designed the present study to examine the reading comprehension of Israeli Arabs, a minority learning the language of the dominant group in a melting-pot ...

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