Linguistic Landscape in Israel Through Palestinian Eyes Observations, Critique, and Demands for Change

This book uses a sociolinguistic framework to explore how language serves as a marker of national identity in conflict zones, focusing on the dystopian portrayal of Arabic as a minority language in Israel through the perspectives of Israeli Palestinian students.

About the author

Rawia Hayik is a senior lecturer in and head of the English Department at Sakhnin Academic College for Teacher Education, Israel. She finished her PhD in the Literacy, Culture, and Language Education Department at Indiana University in the United States. Recently, she served as a visiting scholar in the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department at UCLA, USA. Her research interests include critical pedagogies in the Palestinian-Israeli EFL classroom, multicultural children's literature, the linguistic landscape, and professional identities of prospective English teachers.

Product details

• Authors: Rawia Hayik
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 27.06.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
• EAN: 9780367462666
• ISBN: 978-0-367-46266-6
• Pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Studies in Language and Identity
• Subjects: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Sociolinguistics, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Educational Linguistics, Linguistic landscape;Israel;Arab, LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic, minority language rights, Photovoice methodology, language policy Israel, linguistic landscape qualitative study, Arabic signage research