Sociolinguistics 9, Exercise 2: Hebrew and Irish

As the pages tell it: Hebrew was revived from a liturgical language into a
spoken lingua franca and became Israel's national language (called "the only
successful example of language revival"). For Irish, Andrew Carnie says
state-directed teaching has been ineffective, and an urban movement built on
Irish-medium schools (Gaelscoileanna, over thirty in Dublin) is growing. The
Language planning article (Chapter 8) adds that the post-1922 schools effort
lost strength: implementation was left to individual schools, with no
agreed method and no assessment system.

Thomason's point: Hebrew and Māori share a feature, children raised in fully
immersive environments (kibbutzim for Hebrew, language nests for Māori).

Inference (mine, not stated in the pages): Irish taught as a school subject
gave children less immersion than the kibbutz and language-nest cases, which
may help explain the difference. The pages do not draw this conclusion, and
Kendall King's finding that school instruction is less effective than home
use (the Kichwa case) is the nearest support.

Source: Wikipedia, Language revitalization; Language planning.