ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses English teaching in Palestinian schools and continues by investigating borrowing from English and the impact of English on the pupils' linguistic landscape in the shadow of globalization. It examines the trend of writing Arabic using the Latin alphabet. The chapter highlights Palestinian Arab students' achievements in English as reflected in various tests and compares them to those of the Jewish students. It shows that English has begun to play an important role in the Palestinian Arab linguistic repertoire. In the curriculum that was implemented after the establishment of the State of Israel, English was perceived and taught in Israeli schools as a cultural and literary subject, with the emphasis on linguistic competence rather than on the communicative functions of the language. Arabic in Israel has borrowed many lexical items from English since the latter was an official language of mandatory Palestine and was taught as a global language in Palestinian Arab schools from an early age.
