Depending on their language ideologies, countries are likely to develop different concerns for language-education policy. Countries with a monolingual ideology, which may ignore the multilingual reality, will be concerned with correctness and normativism. A country that recognizes two or three languages äs equally important, or countries that recognize multilingual complexity, will need first to determine the Status of each.
While Israel is historically and actually multilingual, the strength of the monolingual ideology used to effect the revitalization of Hebrew has led to downplaying the Claims of other languages, even the rights of the autochthonous second official language, Arabic. However, the inexorable Penetration of English äs a world language into Israeli society, the major effects of 600,000 Russian Speakers arriving in the last few years, and the slow changes brought about by the ongoing peace process all worked to encourage the development of a new multilingual ideology while presenting pragmatic pressures encouraging acceptance of diversity. It is this changed atmosphere that has led the recent Mi
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