Developing Multilingual Education Policies

Michal Tannenbaum is currently the chair of the Program for Multilingual Education at Tel Aviv University. She researches and writes about multiple perspectives of language policy, including family and education systems, emotional aspects of immigration and language sustainability, multilingualism, and art. She edited the book Challenges for Language Education and Policy: Making Space for People (with B. Spolsky & O. Inbar-Lourie; 2014, Routledge).Elana Shohamy is a professor of multilingual education at Tel Aviv University where she researches and writes about multiple dimensions of language policy, language rights, immigration, language testing, and linguistic landscape. Her books include Language Policy: Hidden Agendas and New Approaches (2006, Routledge), and Linguistic Landscape: Expanding the Scenery (edited with D. Gorter; 2009, Routledge).

This is clear thinking and solid experience toward education for a truly democratic and just multilingual world. Beloved scholar-advocates Tannenbaum and Shohamy share wisdom, expertise and a way forward for multilingual education policy, drawing on their decades of lived experience and dedicated language policy research and practice in conflict-ridden Israel.Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania, USAIn this empirically rich and conceptually cogent book, Michal Tannenbaum and Elana Shohamy present a new multilingual education policy in Israel through Shared Education and an array of innovative pedagogical and assessment approaches. The implications of this work go well beyond language and education. It is in fact a new vision for the nation, with diversity and peace at the heart of it.Li Wei, University College London, UK

• Acknowledgements IntroductionA journey towards a new multilingual policyPART One - Language policy, multilingualism, and educationChapter 1 A new approach to language education policyChapter 2 Languages and policy in Israel: History and the presentChapter 3 Advocating for a new multilingual education policy in IsraelPART Two - From policy challenges to research: Major issuesChapter 4 Stakeholder’s attitudes and perceptions regarding multilingual education policiesChapter 5 Testing and assessment of minority students: Language and contentChapter 6 Incorporating L1 in the context of teaching English as an additional languageChapter 7 Connecting Jewish and Arab students via Shared EducationChapter 8 The role of heritage languages in multilingual education policiesChapter 9 The linguistic landscape as multilingual awarenessPART Three - Conclusions, implementations, and challengesChapter 10 Principles of the new multilingual education policyChapter 11 Conclusions, challenges, and future directionsReferencesAppendices