Volume 18, Number 1, 2005

The Linguistic Resources of Israel.......1

Devorah Kalekin-Fishman

Trio: Three (Auto)Biographical Voices and Issues in Curriculum.......3

Salim Abu-Rabia

Social Aspects and Reading, Writing, and Working Memory Skills in Arabic, Hebrew, English, and Circassian: The Quadrilingual Case of Circassians.......27

Dita Fischl and Shifra Sagy

Beliefs About Teaching, Teachers and Schools Among Pre-Service Teachers: The Case of Israeli-Bedouin Students.......59

Anat Shapira and Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz

Opening Windows on Arab and Jewish Children's Strategies as Writers.......72

Lily Orland-Barak and Hayuta Yinon

Different But Similar: Student Teachers' Perspectives on the Use of L1 in Arab and Jewish EFL Classroom Settings.......91

Tamar Zelniker and Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz

School-Family Partnership for Coexistence (SFPC) in the City of Acre: Promoting Arab and Jewish Parents' Role as Facilitators of Children's Literacy Development and as Agents of Coexistence.......114