“We didn’t learn grammar, we learned Hebrew: Divisions and displacement in the language classroom”

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  • Avital Feuer York University

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https://doi.org/10.20360/G27C73

Abstract

The author explored her personal history of feeling stranded in anomie and displacement between two languages, cultures, and identities through her ethnographic research on the subject in a university modern Hebrew language class in Canada. She discoverd a clashing divide between two community sub-groups of “Canadian” and “Israeli” students who based their stereotypes and Othering on their definitions and relationships to the Hebrew language as primarily literary and text-based or oral and speech-based. As the author discoverd the roots of this in-group Othering, she ultimately came to terms with her own feelings of displacement

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1944-12-31

How to Cite

Feuer, A. (1944). “We didn’t learn grammar, we learned Hebrew: Divisions and displacement in the language classroom”. Language and Literacy, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.20360/G27C73

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