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The Hebrew University Jerusalem

S –

Ulpan

Project

A common language links between people in present life, but language also links its speakers to their common history and to a common identity rooted in the past(Prof. Yasir Suleiman, Cambridge University)

Practical and communicative approachCulture and heritageModern everyday life

Rothberg International

School

Hebrew Instruction

- A miracle?linguistic? social?

- A revival? process

The revival of the Hebrew Language

During all these years:Prayers in Hebrew

reading of the bible in synagogues

Sporadic

Hebrew speech between Jews from different

countries

In Jerusalem’s markets: Sephardic Jews (Ladino, Arabic) ,

Ashkenazy Jews (Yiddish): For commercial needs Is this “speech”?

Not a native tongue

“Speech”?

Immigrated to Israel 1881, Jerusalem nationalism:- the

need to live in a common country (Israel)

-

the need to speak

Hebrew

Spoke only Hebrew

Taught “Hebrew in Hebrew”Established newspapers in HebrewMade up new words in Hebrew and used them in his newspapersWrote a dictionary (old and new words)Established associations and groups of Hebrew speakers, and a language committee which later became “The Academy of the Hebrew Language”

(1858 – 1922)

Eliezer Ben Yehuda

1890: Hebrew is the teaching language in schools in certain places in Israel1898: Hebrew speaking kindergartensFrom kids> to parents> to the

community

Between 1900- 1910:

First native speaking children were born

Schools were supported by Jewish organizations abroad. Therefore taught in French, German Parents objected: unuseful language,

will not prepare the students for high education

No text books

Lack

of words

Problems in schools:

1903/4: Language committee was established following teacher’s

demand

Teachers

Hebrew committee

Teachers made up new words

according to their needsThe committee began creating words for entire disciplines

.

lists of terms

(carpentry)

Lack of words: Hebrew committee

1908: Two Hebrew speaking high schools

(Jerusalem and Tel Aviv)

Second stage of the revival: The public space

Gatherings,

Public activities

Tel

– Aviv “The first Hebrew city”, 1909 -Street signs in Hebrew

-Advertisements

on store in

Hebrew

Publishing of textbooks

Children songs Tel- Aviv

1918:Cornerstone for Hebrew university, Jerusalem

(Opened 1925)

1916 –

1918:

34,000 of 85,000 Jews in Israel (40%) declared that their main language was Hebrew

1922:

Hebrew – one of the 3 official languages in Israel (English, Arabic and Hebrew)

Expanding of Hebrew

2009: 9,000,000 Speakers of Hebrew, most of them live in Israel5,300,000 native speakers of Hebrew

Training Sami teachers

Communicating in a new language - First stages in a new language Reading and writing in a new language:

Teaching vocabulary and basic structures via

reading

and writing skills

.

From the word to the text through the sentence:

Syntactical structures in a natural contextMorphology within a communicative contextText and

culture:

teaching

texts as a source of culture

Seminar for Sami Teachers

Listening to Hebrew: developing Listening comprehension in various methodsVisit Hebrew classes

Designing a lesson: Integration of the components into a whole vital lesson

Seminar for Sami Teachers

New materialsSami teachers –kindergarten, schoolsEnthusiasm, ideology, beliefpatience

The vision