TY - BOOK AU - Uhlmann,Allon J. TI - Arabic instruction in Israel: lessons in conflict, cognition and failure T2 - Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia SN - 9789004349957 AV - PJ6068.I8 U1 - 492.7/8007105694 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Arabic language KW - Study and teaching KW - Israel KW - Language policy KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Palestinian Arabs KW - Languages KW - Hebrew language KW - Influence on Arabic N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004349957 ER -