The influence of the Israel-Arab conflict on Israeli-Jewish students learning Arabic as a third language

The attitudes of 100 Israeli-Jewish students toward learning Arabic and coexistence with Arabs within Israel were investigated, as was their evaluation of characters they read about in familiar and unfamiliar texts. The students were found to possess low instrumental and low indoors integrative motivation, but their army service motivation and outdoors integrative motivation were high. Further, they were interested in reading the familiar text, and their understanding of it was higher than their understanding in the unfamiliar text. They evaluated the Prophet Mohammed significantly more positively than the British character.