Teaching Hebrew in the Diaspora: Problems, Challenges, and Directions
Source: MOFET JTEC Webinars
In this forthcoming webinar we shall investigate a few of the problems and pedagogical questions that preoccupy the teachers and the language policy-makers in Jewish schools in the Diaspora. These questions include the issue of "Hebrew in Hebrew", stressing classical Hebrew (Biblical Hebrew) or spoken Hebrew (contemporary Hebrew), fostering oral expression, and so on. By means of a joint discussion, we shall outline several teaching directions while emphasizing the special challenges facing the teacher in the Diaspora. The webinar will be conducted in Hebrew.
Dr. Luba Rachel Charlap is a senior lecturer and head of "The Center of Textual Studies" in Lifshitz College (in Jerusalem), was formerly head of the Unit for Hebrew Expression and the ulpan at Bar-Ilan University (1995–1998), where she initiated, directed and accompanied the program, "Training Teachers of Hebrew as a Second Language" at Bar-Ilan University (1999–2001).
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