Arabic instruction in Israel : : lessons in conflict, cognition and failure / / by Allon J. Uhlmann.

• Author: Uhlmann, Allon J.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 117.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (195 pages) :; illustrations.

In Arabic Instruction in Israel Allon J. Uhlmann confronts two conundrums, namely the persistently poor level of Arabic proficiency among Jewish Arabic students and teachers, and the traumatic alienation of Arab students by university Arabic grammar instruction. These are not aberrations but rather direct, albeit unintended, systemic consequences of the field of Arabic instruction, where Jewish students encounter Arabic as a dead, hostile language; Jewish hegemony devalues native Arabic proficiency; and Arab students are locked into a fractured educational trajectory – encountering two alienating and mutually unintelligible grammars of Arabic at school and at university. By tracing systemic variabilities in cognition and learning Uhlmann exposes hitherto misrecognised dynamics that hinder Arabic instruction in Israel, thereby offering new avenues for possible change.

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Allon J. Uhlmann -- Conundrums of Arabic Instruction in Israel / Allon J. Uhlmann -- The Field of Arabic Instruction in Israel: Underachievement in the Jewish Sector / Allon J. Uhlmann -- The Tertiary Education System and the Double Alienation of Israeli Arabs from Arabic / Allon J. Uhlmann -- A Cognitive Clash in the Classroom: The Incommensurability of Jewish and Arab Grammars of Arabic / Allon J. Uhlmann -- Arabic-Grammar Instruction: Systemic and Cognitive Implications / Allon J. Uhlmann -- References / Allon J. Uhlmann -- Index / Allon J. Uhlmann.