The linguistic behavior of teachers and students in Palestinian Arab schools in Israel

Abstract EN

This research aims to examine the students' attitude towards the linguistic behavior of the teachers and their linguistic behavior, according to independent variables: grade and gender.

This research is based on a sample of Arab school students located in different geographical areas of Israel.

The sample included 465 students from middle and high school classes.

The sample was selected in two stages: the first is the selection of schools randomly from the list of Arab middle and high schools, and then the selection of the sample according to the grade-level sample way.

A questionnaire built specifically for the research was used, three teachers and specialists in teaching Arabic as a mother tongue reviewed and examined the questionnaire, then measured the degree of internal consistency 0.86 (Alpha Cronbach).

The findings of the study indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in linguistic behavior between male and female students, also there were no statistically significant differences between the genders in the linguistic behavior of the teachers in the classroom.

Besides, the results did not indicate that there are statistically significant differences between the students based on the grade variable, but demanding the teacher to speak the standard language made a difference between students in the eleventh grade and students in the middle school, in favor of students in the eleventh grade.

Finally, the results indicated that there is a positive statistical significance between teacher's speaking in the standard language and demanding the students to speak in the standard language.