Teaching New Immigrants Their Mother Tongue As A Way To Ease The Problems of Immigration and Adolescence
Teaching New Immigrants Their Mother Tongue As A Way To Ease The Problems of Immigration and Adolescence

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I will offer a case study which will show the process of change in Israel from a monolingual society to a more openly multilingual one. As the language policy evolved, new immigrants from Russia began to learn not just Hebrew but also Russian at a mother language level. I will show how the language policy of 1995 was implemented in the local junior high school in Bet-Eliezar, Hadera, during this period. Through the implementation of teaching Russian in the school system, the students maintained a fruitful relationship with their nuclear family. The relationship between the students and the school, between the students and their parents and between the parents and the school helped the students become a part of a stable environment despite the drastic changes that were going on in their lives as a result of their migration to Israel.

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