NETA/Hebrew Language

 The NETA curriculum consists of 24 study units designed for six years of study in secondary schools in the diaspora.  The curriculum integrates five dimensions: language skills, subject area content, thought processes, communicative activities, and linguistic grammatical topics.

There are two aspects of learning and achievement in the NETA program: communicative ability and linguistic knowledge.  The success of a typical NETA graduate is assessed in both of these dimensions.  The learning process in NETA engages the student in content related to the theme of the unit studied.  The description of each unit’s goals begins with communicative skills and progresses toward linguistic knowledge.  Within each unit, communicative achievements appear in order of centrality, complexity, and richness of associated activities, starting with the most central, complex, and rich. Linguistic achievements are always described without content and according to a gradual linguistic program of morphology and syntaxץ
 
An overview of important skills, concepts, and genres in the NETA Curriculum
 
Skills
reading
writing 
listening
speaking

Sources of Content
personal and interpersonal
Judaism and Israel
general knowledge

Thinking Skills
Recognition
Explication
Classification
comparing and contrasting
drawing conclusions

Communicative Functions
defining
summarizing
elaborating
describing and narrating
expressing opinions
demonstrating

Linguistic Topics
semantics
syntax
morphology
history of the language

Genres
lists
slogans
stories
poetry
songs
notes: apology, congratulations, etc
newspaper headlines
articles
instructions

Specifics regarding the various levels of the Neta program and information about the Ivrit program are available from department chair.