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Mila Schwartz is Professor in Language and Education and a Head of Research Authority in Oranim Academic College of Education (Israel). Her research interests include studying language policy and models of early bilingual education; linguistic, cognitive, and socio-cultural development of early sequential bilinguals/multilinguals; family language policy; and bilingual teachers' language-conducive strategies and pedagogical development. In this research her focus is on two unique populations: second generation Russian-Hebrew speaking immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Arabic and Hebrew-speaking children enrolled in bilingual bi-national education in Israel.

Prof. Schwartz is an Academic Adviser of the Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education and the Russian-Hebrew-speaking bilingual preschools in Israel. She has published widely in the field of applied linguistics. Her recent books include: 21st Century Preschool Bilingual Education; Preschool Bilingual Education: Agency in Interactions between Children, Teachers, and Parents. Her other publications have appeared in leading academic journals, such as International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education; Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development; Linguistics and Education; Language, Culture and Curriculum, Teaching and Teacher Education, Applied Linguistic Review etc.