Facing bilingual education: kindergarten teachers' attitudes, strategies and challenges  

Oleh:

Schwartz, Mila ; Mor-Sommerfeld, Aura ; Leikin, Mark

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Awareness (Full Text) vol. 19 no. 3 (2010), page 187-203.
Topik: bilingual education; immigrant culture; language awareness and strategies; majority-language teachers; minority-language maintenance
Fulltext: 19.3.187-203.pdf (174.35KB)

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This article examines how majority-language teachers coping with additive education view their roles in a bilingual framework, how they perceive issues of culture and language in young bilingual children, and how they understand the term ‘bilingual education’ in an L2 non-additive context. The study has been conducted in the context of pre-school bilingual education of second generation Russian-Hebrew speaking immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel. Using an ethnographic approach comprising observation, interviews and life histories, a set of behaviours and beliefs has been revealed, enabling us to compare approaches in two bilingual – Russian-Hebrew – kindergartens. This is discussed at both the micro- (teachers’ reports) and the macro- (Israeli language and educational policies) level.

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