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Despite significant legal enfranchisements over the past 20 years, gays and lesbians in Israel remain largely marginalized and excluded from Israeli society. My dissertation explores how gay and lesbian Israelis understand and negotiate this exclusion, and maps out the ways in w…

This paper examines current practices and philosophies within Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) through analysis of a survey distributed to Arabic language teachers around the U.S. and follow-up interviews with a small subset of the respondents. Based on these cont…

The Spanish language is in contact with many languages throughout the world, from minority regional languages in the Iberian Peninsula to indigenous languages throughout Latin America. Despite the volume of research on Spanish in contact with other languages, many previous studi…