Teaching Arabic Language at the Jewish Schools at the Preparatory Educational Levels

Abstract

This study examined the teaching of Arabic language in the preparatory

stage in government and religious Jewish schools. The study tackled the

impact of the political reality on the teaching of the language in Israel, and

the state of this language in the Jewish schools and in the religious and public

schools in particular. The researcher focused on the teaching of alphabets,

sounds, syntax, morphology, and semiotics. In addition, the researcher made

a reading and an analysis of the content of these schools' Arabic curriculum.

After data collection and analysis, the researcher found that the Arabic

language teaching in these schools was in need of consideration. The content

of the curriculum in general and the way it is introduced to the school student

have shortcomings and gaps. This is attributed to the fact that the authors of

these schools' textbooks had failed to introduce the proper Arabic language

in an objective and specific manner. Their aim was to enable the student to

become familiar with the alphabets and some vocabulary which make him

able to speak Arabic.