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January, 2024

Dorit Ravid, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Tel Aviv University

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

Faculty  Humanities / Medicine
Department  School of Education / Department of Communications Disorders
Mobile  +972 544-482401
Email doritr@tauex.tau.ac.il
Marital Status  Married + 3, grandmother to 9

 

EDUCATION 

1971-1974                Tel Aviv University                        Linguistics & English literature,  B.A.  1974

1974-1978               Tel Aviv University                         Linguistics, cum laude,   M.A.  1978

1980-1988                 Tel Aviv University                          Linguistics    Ph.D.    1988

1991-1993               MOFET Institute  Pedagogy         Teaching license, 1993

 

Master’s thesis   Word-formation processes in Modern Hebrew nouns and adjectives
Supervisor: Ruth A. Berman
Doctoral dissertation Transient and fossilized phenomena in inflectional morphology:

Varieties of spoken Hebrew
Supervisor: Ruth A. Berman

 

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

1975-1985           Hebrew/English Teacher, Yehud High School

1975-1993          Linguistics teacher, Shein Teachers’ College, Beit Berl Teachers’ College, Levinsky Teachers’ College

1980-1990          Teaching Instructor, Linguistics Dept., Tel Aviv University

1992-1997          Chair, English Department, Seminar Hakibbutzim Teachers’ College

1993-1997          Lecturer, School of Education & Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University

1993-2006          Head, Hebrew Teacher Training Program, School of Education, Tel Aviv University

1998                      Tenured Senior Lecturer, School of Education & Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University

2002-2004          Head, Unit for Language Instruction and Acquisition, School of Education, Tel Aviv University

2003                      Associate Professor, School of Education & Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University

2006-2007          Head, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, Tel Aviv University

2007                      Full Professor, School of Education & Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University

2009-2013             Chair, Research Students’ Committee, School of Education, Tel Aviv University

2021                        Professor Emerita, Tel Aviv University

 

VISITING SCHOLARSHIPS AND TEACHING APPOINTMENTS 

1990-1991          Visiting scholar, Linguistics Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

1997                     Invited teacher, Linguistics Department, Vienna University, Austria   2000                                Visiting scholar, Linguistics Department, Vienna University, Austria

  • International Francqui Chair, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  • Overseas Behavioral Scientist Nominee, British Psychological Society

2008                     Visiting Scholar & Teacher, ERASMUS Program in Clinical Linguistics, Potsdam University,

2011                     Visiting Researcher Award, University of Bangor, Wales Centre for Bilingualism Research

2014                      Invited teacher, Trondheim, Norway, NetWords Summer School on Word Processing and Learning

2015-2016          Visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics and Symbolic Systems, Stanford University

2019                     Invited teacher, University of Graz, Austria, course on The Acquisition of Morphology

2020-2021           Invited Visiting scholar, Center for Language and Information, Stanford University

(Cancelled due to the COVID19 situation)

 

PUBLIC SERVICE 

1995-2000          Member, Elementary School Hebrew Curriculum Committee

2001-2005           Member, Preschool Literacy Curriculum

2005-2006          Member, Council for Higher Education committee examining Haifa University’s Communications Disorders Program

2005-                    Chair, Council for Higher Education) committee for the examination of the Open University’s request to set up a Learning Disabilities Program

  • Member, Israeli TIMSS and PISA Steering Committees

2005-2007          Chair, Israeli PIRLS Steering Committee

  • Member, Advisory Board on Preschool-3rd Grade: Diagnosis, Measurement and Assessment, Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2009                     Chair, Steering committee on the construction of the AMIT test for junior highschool,

RAMA [National Authority for Research and Assessment]

  • Member, Israeli PIRLS steering committee, in charge of quality control of HebrewEnglish translations, RAMA [National Authority for Research and Assessment]
  • Chair, Israeli PIRLS Steering committee, RAMA [National Authority for Research and Assessment]

2010                      Member, committee on the MA in learning disabilities at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University

  • Chair, Council for Higher Education committee examining the request by Sachnin College to set up a BA program in Education
  • Chair, Council for Higher Education committee examining the request by Emuna College to set up a BA program in Education

2010-2015           Chair of Steering Committee, national AMIT Hebrew language testing in 7TH grade 

2011-2012          Head, Rothschild Yad Hanadiv project for the development of national standards for assessing 7th grade writing

2012-2014          Chair, Council for Higher Education committees examining the requests by three

Colleges to set up MA programs in Learning Disabilities

2013                      Member, Founding Committee, Zarkor bi-lingual school

2014-2021          Member, Council for Higher Education High Committee for the Promotion of Professors in the Life Sciences, Medicine and Health Sciences in Israeli colleges

  • Chair, Council for Higher Education Experts’ Committee on approval of college MA program in learning disabilities

2017-2018          Member, Israel Academy of Science and the Initiative for Applicative Research in Education Experts’ Committee on adjusting curricula and learning/teaching materials to the requirements of the 21st century

2017-                     Chair of Steering Committee, national ITAI Hebrew language testing in 10th grade

2018-2021          Member, Ethics committee, Tel Aviv University

2019                      Chair, Council for Higher Education National Quality Assessment Committee on the Hebrew language departments in all Israeli Teachers’ Colleges

2021                      Member, Rishon Le-Tzion Committee for the endowment of Meir Ariel Hebrew Language Prize

 

POSITIONS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 

1999-2005          Officer, Executive Committee, International Association for the Study of Child Language

2011-2014          Vice-President, International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)

1998-2002          Officer, Executive Committee, SCRIPT Organization for Language and Literacy

2002-2005          Vice-Chair, SCRIPT Organization for Language and Literacy

2005-2009          Chair, SCRIPT Organization for Language and Literacy

2010-2013          President, Israeli Linguistic Society

2005-                    Research Board, Center for Language Acquisition, University of Southern Denmark

2011-                    Member, Academie Europea,

2014                      International Jury for the selection of the Francqui Human Science Prize, Brussels

2017-                   Vice-president, Association for Written Language and Literacy

2018-                    General Editor, Written Language and Literacy (Published by Benjamins)

 

 

EDITORIAL BOARDS 

1995-2005           Chelkat Lashon, Hebrew Linguistics

1998-                    Advisory Board, PSiCL, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

2000-2010           Benjamin book series on Written Language and Literacy

2000-2005           SCRIPT Journal

Literacy Associate Editor, Megamot

2005-2022          Reading and Writing

2005-2010           Annals of Dyslexia

2012-2015          First Language

2019-                    Lingue e Linguaggio

2004-2018          Associate Editor, Linguistics, Written Language and Literacy

2018-                    General Editor, Written Language and Literacy (Published by Benjamins)

 

 

GRANTS 

1994-1995          School of Education, Tel Aviv University, $4,000 (with Iris Levin)

1995-1996          MOFET Institute, NIS 26,000, with (Itzhak Shlesinger, Bar Ilan University)

1995-1997          Chief Scientist, Ministry of Education, $40,000 (with Iris Levin)

1996-1998          Israel Science Foundation, $30,000 (with Ruth Berman)

1997-2000           Spencer Foundation $500,000 to Ruth Berman, Dorit Ravid Israeli PI

1998-2000          Ford Foundation, $24,000 (with Iris Levin)

2001-2002           Tel Aviv University Research Grant, $ 2,000

2001-2003          Chief Scientist, Ministry of Education, NIS 80,000 (with Ruth Berman)

2002-2004          Ford Foundation, $20,000 (with Ruth Berman)

2002-2003           NIH to Robert DeKeyser (Pittsburgh University), Israeli grant $18,000 to Dorit Ravid

2003-2004           Wizcom company (Israel), $ 7,500

2004-2007           Chief Scientist, Ministry of Education, NIS 80,000

2004-2007          Bi-National Science Foundation), $36,000 to Dorit Ravid, Ruth Berman and Marilyn Nippold (University of Oregon)

  • – 2008       Israel Science Foundation, NIS 414,000
  • -2007        Israeli Libraries Center, NIS 30,000 (with Dafna Kaplan)

2008-2011          Israel Science Foundation, NIS 396,000 (with Rachel Schiff, Bar Ilan University)

2009-2010          Lion Foundation, $2000 (with Eva Smolka, Konstanz University, Germany)

2009-2010           Tel Aviv University, NIS 14,000

2010-2012           Israel Science Foundation, NIS 399,000

2011-2013          Chief Scientist, Ministry of Education, NIS 80,000 (with Rachel Schiff, Bar Ilan University)

2011-2012           Yad Hanadiv, NIS 1,730,000

2013-2015           Chief Scientist, Ministry of Education, NIS 200,000

2013-2017           Israel Science Foundation, NIS 544,000

2017-2021           Israel Science Foundation, NIS 1,120,000

2022-2026           Israel Science Foundation, NIS 1,500,000

 

REVIEWER           Details available upon request  

 

TALKS AND PLENARIES IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS, CONFERENCES AND COLLOQUES 

All references are to spoken talks in scientific meetings (unless specified otherwise). Additional information regarding invited talks, guest talks, plenaries and keynotes is provided in the references

1985      Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Conference, Tel-Aviv University, June 5

1985      Israel Association of Applied Linguistics annual conference, October 2

1987      SCRIPT annual conference, Kiryat Anavim, February 25

1987      Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics Conference, Bar-Ilan University, May 13

1987      Linguistics Department Colloquium, Tel-Aviv University, May 19

1987      Israel Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Bar Ilan University, October 20

1990      Carleton University Linguistics Colloquium, Ottawa, October 26

  • Psychology Department colloquium, York University, Toronto, November 20
  • Department of Oriental and African Languages and Literature colloquium, University of Texas at Austin, February 26

1991      North American Conference on Afro-AsiaticLinguistics. UC Berkeley, March 7

1991      Word Order in Discourse. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April 14

1991      Linguistics Department colloquium, SUNY at Stony Brook, May 10.

1991      “What About Methodology?” conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, May 24

1991      National Association of Professors of Hebrew. Emory University, Atlanta, June 3

1991      Association for Israeli Studies Annual Meeting, Barnard College, New York, June 10

  • 2nd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. UC Santa Cruz, July 31
  • SCRIPT annual conference, 7-8 July, Ma’ale Hachamisha.
  • Israel Association of Applied Linguistics annual conference, Bar Ilan, October 20
  • Hebrew – a Living Language conference. Oranim/Haifa University, May 27-28
  • National Teachers Conference. October 3-5, Tel Aviv University.
  • 24th Israeli Psychologists Conference, October 11-13, Bar Ilan University
  • University of Barcelona, Spain, Developmental Psychology colloquium. April 18
  • SCRIPT 9th annual conference, July 12-13, Ma’ale Hachamisha.
  • Societas Linguistica Europaea conference, September 4-8, Florence University, Italy
  • Israel Association of Applied Linguistics, Bar Ilan University, October 19.
  • The First Conference on Sociolinguistics, Bar Ilan University, January 29-30

1995      AERA conference, San Francisco, USA April 17-22

1995      Guest talk, Linguistics Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, April 26

1995      Workshop TESL Ottawa, Canada, April 29

1995      Israeli Chapter of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Ben Gurion University, May 9

1995      SCRIPT conference, Ma’ale Hachamisha, June 27-29

1995      Israel Association of Applied Linguistics, Levinsky Teachers’ College, October18

  • Keynote address, Linguistic Education. Levinsky Teachers’ College, December 6
  • 7th International Morphology Meeting, University of Vienna, February 14-18

1996      Poster, Child Language Seminar, Reading, England, April 13-15

1996      SCRIPT conference, Ma’ale Hachamisha, July 10-11

1996      International Congress for the study of Child Language, Bogazici University, Istanbul, July 14-19

1996     Convenor and discussant, Workshop on the Acquisition of Semitic Languages, 7th International

Congress for the study of Child Language, Bogazici University, Istanbul, July 14-19

1996      Workshop on pre- and proto-morphology, 7th International Congress for the study of Child Language, Bogazici University, Istanbul, July 14-19

  • EARLI-SIG writing conference, University Autonoma, Barcelona, Spain October 23-25
  • International Pre and Protomorphology Project, University of Vienna, Austria, November 6-9

1997      GALA conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, April 4-6

1997      SCRIPT conference, July 1-3, Ma’ale Hachamisha (two talks)

1997      Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, Holland July 14-19

1997     European Conference on Developmental Psychology, University of Rennes 2, September 3-7

1997      Child Language Seminar, Garderen, Holland, September12-14,

1997      Spencer Foundation International Workshop I on Developing Literacy, Tel Aviv University, September 21-25

1997      Pre- and Protomorphology Meeting, University of Vienna, Austria, November 20-23

  • 3rd Hebrew is a Living Language Oranim conference, Oranim, December 28-29
  • Poznan Linguistic Meeting, Poznan, Poland, Adam Mickevic University, May 1-3,

1998      Spencer Foundation International Workshop II on Developing Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 26-30

1998      EARLI SIG Writing conference, University of Poitiers, France, July 2-4

1998      SCRIPT annual conference, Ma’ale Ha-chamisha, July 5-7

1998      Research conference on the Structure of Learner Language: from pragmatics to syntax, organization of second language acquisition. European Science Foundation, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, September 26 – October 1

1998      Child Language Seminar, University of Sheffield, September 4-6

  • Storage and Computation in Linguistics, Utrecht University, October 19-21
  • International conference on Semitic Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, January 11-13

1999      Spencer Foundation International Workshop III on Developing Literacy, Tel Aviv University, February 14-18

1999      30th Annual Child Language Research Forum, CSLI, Stanford University, April 9-11

1999      Guest talk, City University of New York, Psychology Dept., April 20,

1999      Jerusalem Conference on Language and Disorders, Hebrew University, May 25-26

1999      Israel Chapter of the European Linguistic Society, Bar Ilan University, May 31

1999      International Pragmatics Conference, Tel Aviv University, June 13-16

1999      Spencer Foundation International Workshop IV on Developing Literacy, University of Barcelona, July 5-9

1999      International Congress for the Study of Child Language, University of San Sebastian, July 12-16

1999      Child Language Seminar, City University, London, September 2-4

1999      Boston University Language Development Conference, November 5-7

1999      Unit for Human Development, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, November 18

  • School of Education Research Seminar, Dead Sea, December 5-6
  • Spencer Foundation International Workshop V on Developing Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 24-28

2000      Plenary talk, 9th International Morphology Meeting 2000, Vienna University, February 25-27

2000      International Research Workshop on the Study of Language Disorders. Hebrew University, Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, March 26-30

2000      Spencer Foundation International Workshop VI on Developing Literacy, Psychology department, UCSD, San Diego, July 26-30

2000      Workshop Writing Language, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, August 29-30

2000      EARLI Special Interest Group Conference on Writing, Verona, Italy, September 7– 9

2000      Israel Association of Applied Linguistics, Ben Gurion University, October 22

  • Unit for Human Development, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, November 2
  • International workshop on Reference and Coherence in Discourse. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht January 11-12

2001      Hebrew – a Living Language Conference III. Oranim, February 4

2001      Multilingualism Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, March 14

2001      Brain and Language Workshop, Bar Ilan University, April 29

2001      Workshop on Perception and production during text writing, Lund University, May 10-12

2001      Plenary talk, SCRIPT conference, Shfayim, July 2-3

2001      Symposium organizer & convenor (2 symposia) SCRIPT conference, Shfayim, July 2-3

2001      Child Language Seminar, University of Hertfordshire, UK, July 9-11

2001      European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Uppsala, Sweden, August 23-26

2001      GALA, University of Lisbon, Portugal, September 14-16

2001      Plenary, ÉCRITURES ET SENS LINGUISTIQUES, l’Université de Strasbourg, November 29-30

2001      Guest talk, Laboratoire d’Études sur l’Acquisition et la Pathologie du Langage chez l’Enfant, CNRS Villejuif, Paris, December 3

  • Early Lexical Acquisition Conference, University of Lyon, December 5-8
  • Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society (IALS), May 5-6

2002      Institute for Jewish Studies (IJS), Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, June 13

2002      Children with Cochlear Implants, Antwerp University, Belgium, June 14-16

2002      19th NAPH International Conference on Hebrew, Ben Gurion University, July 2-4

2002      Association for the Study of Child Language, Madison, Wisconsin, July 16-21

2002      Workshop ‘From Letter to Sound‘, University of Cologne, September 23–24

2002      Israel Association of Applied Linguistics, Talpiyot Teachers’ College, September 29

2002      Unit for Human Development, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, October 31

  • Organizer and Chair, Script Workshop, Tel Aviv University, December 15
  • Orton Dyslexia Organization annual conference, Tel Aviv University, December 3
  • Israeli Chapter of the ELS, Beit Berl Teachers’ College, January 16.
  • Georgetown University Round Table, Washington, DC February 15-17

2003     AAAL meeting, Arlington University, Virginia, March 22-25

2003      Language and Society Conference, Hebrew University, June 15

2003     Organizer and co-chair, SCRIPT conference, Zikhron Yaakov, June 30 – July 1.

2003      SCRIPT conference, Zikhron Yaakov, 30 June-1 July.

2003     Child Language Seminar, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, July 9-11

2003     GALA conference, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 4-5 September

2003     Guest talk, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, September18

2003     Partners’ meeting, European project, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, Lyon, October 4-5

2003      Guest talk, Unit of Cognition and Brain studies, Cambridge University, UK, October 7

2003      Guest talk, School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales, UK, October 9

2003      Workshop on Information and Tenor in Texts, Utrecht University, October 22-25

2003      Guest talk, Language and Discourse, Levinsky Teachers’ College, December 4

  • Organizer and Chair, SCRIPT, Tel Aviv University, December 8
  • Meeting in honor of Prof. Ora Schwarzwald, Bar Ilan University, January 13

2004      Hebrew – a Living Language, bi-annual conference, Oranim College, February 2-3

2004      Pre- and Proto Morphology Meeting, University of Vienna, Austria, February 12-13

2004      9th International Morphology Meeting, University of Vienna, Austria, February 14-17

2004      Noun Plurals Workshop, University of Antwerp, April 19

2004     Guest talk, University of North Texas, April 22

2004     AAAL conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, May 1-4

2004      Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, USA, May 5-8

2004      Language and Society Conference, Beit Berl, June 13

2004      Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 27-30

2004      Organizer and co-chair, SCRIPT, Zikhron Yaakov, July 7-8

2004      Script conference, SCRIPT, Zikhron Yaakov, July 7-8

2004      Child Language Seminar, University of West England, Bristol, UK, July 12-13

2004     Conference on Language, Culture and Mind, University of Portsmouth, July 18-20

2004     Workshop on Writing Systems, University of Antwerp, September 30-October 1

2004      ILASH, Bar Ilan University, October 10

2004       Organizer and Chair, SCRIPT on reading disorders, Tel Aviv University, December 12

  • Conference on Nikud, Bar Ilan University, December 14.
  • International Workshop on Noun Plurals, Vienna University, February 1-2

2005      Workshop on Pre- and Proto-Morphology, Vienna University, February 3-4

2005      International Symposium on Bilingualism 5, Barcelona, Spain, March 21

2005      Partners’ meeting, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, France, February 24-27

2005      Organizer, Workshop on Ruth A. Berman’s festschrift, Tel Aviv University, April 7  2005      SCRIPT Workshops on Punctuation and Spelling. Bar Ilan University, 18 April.

2005     International Workshop on Noun Plurals, Vienna University, 12-13 May.

2005     Invited talk, Brain and Language Workshop, Bar Ilan University, 24 May.

2005     Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 24-26    2005     SCRIPT organizer and co-chair, Bar Ilan University, July 6-7.

2005       SCRIPT conference, Bar Ilan University, July 6-7

2005      10th International Association for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, July 25-29    2005      Guest talk, Linguistics Dept., University of Antwerp, Belgium, October 12.

2005      Guest talk, Linguistics Dept., Leiden University, Holland, October 14.

2005      Language Acquisition with Cochlear Implants, University of Antwerp, November 10-11

2005      Francqui Chair Workshop on the development of noun plurals in Hebrew, German, Dutch and Danish, University of Antwerp, December 2-3

  • Guest talk, Linguistics Dept., University of Cologne, December 20
  • Symposium on Child Language, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, January 12-13

2006      Invited talk, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, January 16

2006      Ravid International Francqui Chair Workshop on the Development of Noun Plurals in Hebrew, German, Dutch and Danish, Vienna University, February 1-2

2006      International Pre- and Proto-Morphology Workshop, Vienna University, February 2-4

2006      Workshop on the acquisition of adjectives, chair, Vienna University, February 3

2006      Invited talk, Eighth Gregynog Conference on child language, Bangor, Wales, April 6-7

2006      Invited talk, Psychology department, Bangor, Wales, UK, April 9

2006      International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, May 27

2006      Noun Plurals in Hebrew, German, Dutch and Danish, Vienna University, May 29 – June 2

2006      Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Vancouver, July 6-8, two talks

2006      Symposium on figurative language, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, July 14

2006      Chair, Literacy and Language Conference, Tel Aviv University, July 25-26

2006      Symposium organizer, Literacy and Language conference, Tel Aviv University, July 26

2006      Organizer, International workshop on the acquisition of language in Hebrew and Dutch-speaking children with cochlear implants, Tel Aviv University, November 23-24

2006      Organizer, International workshop on the acquisition of noun plurals in Hebrew, Dutch, German, Danish, Tel Aviv University, November 25-26

  • Organizer and co-chair, Workshop on metaphoricity, Tel Aviv University, December 17
  • Workshop in honor of Yitzhak Shlesinger’s retirement, Bar Ilan University, January 9

2007      Conference “Hebrew – a Living Language”, Oranim – the Academic Section, 5 February

2007      Pre- and Proto-Morphology, Vienna University & Austrian Academy of Sciences, February 21-27

2007      Chair, Workshop on the Acquisition of Adjectives, Vienna University, February 23

2007      Workshop on the Acquisition of Noun Plurals, Vienna University, February 25-27

2007      SCRIPT Workshop on Literacy and Language, Bar Ilan University, March 25

2007      Israeli Linguistic Society conference, Tel Aviv University, March 29

2007     Workshop on the Acquisition of Noun Plurals, Antwerp University, June 14-17

2007      Chair, Literacy and Language Conference 2, Levinsky College, July 1-2

2007      Symposium organizer, Literacy and Language conference, Tel Aviv University, July 2

2007      Society for the Scientific Study of Reading conference, Prague, July 12-14

2007      Child Language Seminar conference, Reading, UK, July 18-20

2007      Formal Approaches to Language Acquisition, Haifa University, October 7

2007     Van Leer Institute Workshop on written and spoken language, Jerusalem, October 15

2007      Aspects of populations with special needs, Bar Ilan University, November 11

  • Language and Literacy conference, Levinsky Teachers’ College, November 27
  • Talk presented to Ministry of Education chief policy-makers. RAMA Institute, January 8

2008      Workshop on Standards in Education, Weizman Institute, January 27

2008     Talk presented in honor of Zvi Sar’el’s retirement. MOFET Institute, January 28

2008      Processing and Acquisition of Morphology, Vienna University, February 3-4

2008      Vienna Morphology Meeting, Vienna University, February 5

2008     Organizer, Pre- and Proto-morphology Workshop on Adjectives. Vienna University, February 7-8

2008   Workshop on the Acquisition of Noun Plurals, Vienna University, February 10-12

2008   Workshop on Children with Cochlear Implants, Antwerp University, March 31 – April 4

2008      Language and Literacy Conference, Bar Ilan University, May 11

2008      Guest speaker, ERASMUS Program seminar, Potsdam University, Berlin, June 9

2008      Workshop on the Acquisition of Noun Plurals, Antwerp University, June 12-14

2008      11th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 28 – August 1

2008      Lyon Literacy Workshop, Institut des Sciences de l’Homme, Lyon, September 3-5

  • Guest talk, Faculty seminar, School of Education, Bar Ilan University, December 2.
  • Guest talk, Language, Brain, Communication Conference, Bar-Ilan University, January 4.

2009      Invited talk, ISF Conference on Bilingualism and SLI, Jerusalem, February 3

2009      Workshop on the Acquisition of Noun Plurals, Vienna University, February 10-11

2009      Workshop on the Early Acquisition of Adjectives. Vienna University, February 12

2009      Israeli Linguistic Society, Bar Ilan University, February 17

2009      Invited talk. Speech / language pathologists’ 2009 conference, February 18.

2009     Academic paper writing. Ahva College panel on academic paper writing, March 2.  2009                  Invited talk, Cost-Action meeting, Linguistics dept., Barcelona University, April 6

2009      Invited talk, Tel Aviv University – RAMOT and Ministry of Education, May 4.

2009      Workshop on early input to children from low SES, Vienna University, May 28

2009    Workshop on early adjective acquisition, Vienna University, May 29

2009      SSSR Conference, Boston University, two talks June 25-26

2009      International Workshop on Linguistic Input, Tel Aviv University, July 8

2009      International workshop on early adjective acquisition, Tel Aviv University, July 9-10

2009      Language and Literacy Conference, Neve Ilan, September 3-4

2009      Workshop on early input to children from low SES, Vienna University, September 10

2009      Workshop on early adjective acquisition Vienna University, September 11

2009      International Symposium on Communication Disorders, Agros-Cyprus, November 6-8

2009      Workshop on early input to children from low SES, Antwerp University, December 17

  • Workshop on early adjective acquisition, Antwerp University, December 18
  • Haifa University Workshop on Psycholinguistics, January 4

2010      Hebrew – a Living Language conference, Oranim, February 1

2010      Two invited talks, Israeli Society of Speech-Language Pathologists, February 3

2010      Israeli Branch of the European Linguistic Society, Haifa University, February 8

2010      Workshop on early input to children from low SES, Vienna University, February 10

2010      Workshop on early adjective acquisition, Vienna University, February 11

2010      Workshop on early morphological acquisition Vienna University, February 12

2010      Workshop on early adjective acquisition, Vienna University, April 14-15

2010      Workshop on input to children from low SES, Vienna University, April 16

2010      Invited talk, Workshop on Challenges to Arabic Literacy, Haifa University, May 2

2010      Guest talk, Psychology Dept Colloquium, Brighton University in Sussex, May 27

2010      Child Language Seminar, two talks and poster, University of London, June 23-25

2010     Organizer, two symposia, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Berlin, July 7-10 2010                  Guest talk, Bangor University, Bilingualism Center, August 23.

2010      Writing Systems and Literacy, Université Paris Descartes, September 30–October 1

2010     Invited talk, Principles of writing evaluation, CET center, 20 September

2010      Workshop on motion verbs, Vienna University, December 8

2010      Workshop on early adjective acquisition, Vienna University, December 9

  • Workshop on plural acquisition, Vienna University, December 9
  • Workshop on motion verbs, Vienna University, February 16

2011      Workshop on early adjective acquisition, Vienna University, February 17

2011      Workshop on early morphological acquisition, Vienna University, February 18-19

2011      Workshop on plural acquisition, University of Antwerp, March 9

2011      Invited presentation, Advisory Board of Yad Hanadiv, Jerusalem, March 28

2011      Invited talk, Language Disabilities, Haifa University, May 22

2011      Keynote address, Language and Literacy, July 6

2011      Invited talk, Discourse Coherence group, Utrech University, Holland, June 21

2011      12th International Conference for the Study of Child Language, Université du Québec, July 19-23

2011      Workshop on root learning and zero conversion, Konstanz University, August 23-24

2011   Workshop on motion verbs, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, September 16

2011      Invited talk, Friends of Tel Aviv University, Vienna University, September 21

2011      Workshop on noun plurals, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, September 22

2011      Invited talk, ACROLT, Tel Aviv University, November 6

2011      Keynote address, Steering Committee of Standards Project, CET, November 9

2011     Invited talks, Hebrew University Research Institute for Innovation in Education, November 13-14

  • Plenary talk, Louvain la Neuve conference on text structuring, Belgium, November 15-19
  • Invited talk, Hebrew language department, Bar Ilan University, January 10

2012      Invited talk, Psychology department, Hebrew University, January 22

2012      Three talks, Vienna Morphology Meeting, Vienna University, February 9-13

2012      Israeli Linguistic Circle, David Yellin College, Jerusalem, February 21

2012      Guest talk, Linguistics department, Bar-Ilan University, March 27

2012      Invited talk, Writing Systems workshop, Haifa University, April 16-17

2012      Invited talk, Ministry of Education, Levinsky Teachers’ College, May 10

2012      Invited talk, Brain Plasticity to Cognition Conference, Hebrew University, May 15-17

2012      Language and Literacy Conference, Kiryat Ono Academic Center, July 6

2012   Two talks, SSSR conference, Montreal, July 11-14

2012      Keynote address, International conference on academic writing, MOFET, August 1

2012      Université Rene Decartes CNRS, September 18

2012      Workshop on writing systems. Oldenburg, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, October 4-5

2012      Invited talk, Forum on Academic Writing, MOFET Institute, Tel Aviv, December 9

2012      Invited talk, Study Day on Writing Development, Initiative on Applied Education Research and the Israeli Academy of Sciences, Jerusalem, December 20

  • Colloque International on Early Language Acquisition, Lyon, France, December 5-7
  • Pre- and proto-morphology meeting, University of Vienna, February 21-22

2013      Colloquium talk, linguistics department, Hebrew University, March 12

2013      Invited talk, Institute for Jewish Studies (IJS), Antwerp University, Belgium, April 18

2013      International Conference on Reading Comprehension, Bar Ilan University, April 28

2013      Workshop on Language Development in Low SES Vienna University, May 3

2013      Keynote speaker, Developing Reading and Writing Skills, Hakibbutzim Teachers’ College, May 21

2013      Invited keynote speaker, study day, Israeli Initiative for Research in Education, May 12

2013      Child language seminar, Manchester University, June 23-24

2013      Symposium organizer and speaker, Variation within and across Jewish languages, Institute for Jewish Studies (IJS), Antwerp University, Belgium, June 26-28

2013     Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Hong Kong University, July 10-13

2013      Conference of the Acquisition of Referring Expressions (AERef), Paris, BULAC – Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations, October 25-26

2013      Keynote address, Adjective acquisition across languages. Utrecht University, November 28-29

  • Invited talk, study day in memorial of Iris Levin. Tel Aviv University, December 1
  • Guest talk, Open University study day University, January 15

2014      Input-output workshop, Antwerp University, February 10-14

2014      Three talks, Pre- and proto-morphology meeting, University of Vienna, February 20-21

2014      Invited colloquium talk, Hebrew language department, Hebrew University, March 9

2014      Israeli Linguistic Society meeting, March 18

2014      GURT conference on Usage-based approaches to language, Georgetown University, March 14-16

2014      Workshop on language development in low SES, Vienna University, May 15-16

2014      Invited talk, Friends of TAU, Vienna University, May 15

2014      Literacy and Language conference, Haifa University, July 3

2014      Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Santa Fe University, July 14-19

2014      Organizer and speaker, International Conference on the Cross-linguistic Comparison of IndoGermanic and Semitic Languages, Konstanz University, July 21-23

2014      SIG Writing, University of Amsterdam, August 23-24

2014      Mental Lexicon conference, Niagara on the Lake, September 29 – October 2

2014      Early Development Research Group, Linguistics Department, Stanford University, October 15

  • Symposium on Different Modalities, Lund University, November 23
  • Two talks, Pre- and Proto- Morphology Meeting, University of Vienna, February 12-14

2015      Invited talk, Chief Scientist (Education) study day, April 30

2015      Invited talk, Ruth Berman’s 80th celebration, Israeli Academy of Sciences, June 2

2015      Invited talk, Usage Based Linguistics, Hebrew University, 14 June

2015      Talk, Word Formation Theories conference, Kosice, Slovakia, 28 June

  • Guest talk, Berkeley Graduate School of Education GSE/SESAME Colloquium, August 31
  • Israeli Linguistic Society conference, Open University of Israel, February 9

2016      Pre- and Proto-morphology workshop, Vienna Academy of Sciences, 16-17 February

2016      17th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 18-21

2016      Guest talk, College of Education, Texas A & M University College Station, March 7

2016      Miami FLing 2016, University of Miami, March 9-11

2016      Invited speaker, Israel Science Foundation Conference on First vs. Second Language Learning. Hebrew University, September 26-28

2016      Invited talk, Friends of Tel Aviv University, Vienna University, October 11

2016      International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Ottawa, October 19-21

  • Guest talk, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, TAU, December 18
  • Invited online introductory talk, MOFET webminar, January 16

2017      Pre- and Proto-morphology workshop, Vienna Academy of Sciences, February 2-3

2017      Guest talk, Department of Linguistics & Symbolic Systems, Stanford, March 8

2017      Invited talk, Department of Communication Disorders Colloquium, May 9

2017      Four talks, Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Hebrew University, July 3-5

2017      Literacy and Language conference, The Open University of Israel, July 6

2017      Two talks, Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Tallinn University, Tartu, Estonia, July 10-14

2017     Organizer and co-chair, “What is a verb?” workshop, Konstanz University, Germany, July 26-28

2017      Plenary talk, Foreign language teaching study day, Hebrew University, July 30

2017      Keynote address, Writing Systems and Literacy, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, August 29-31

2017     Invited talk, Friends of Tel Aviv University, Vienna University, October 17

2017      Invited talk, Committee on School Curricula in the 21st century, Jerusalem, November 6

2017      Invited talk, Pedagogical Secretariat, Ministry of Education, Jerusalem, November 7

  • Invited talk, Open University Editors, Open University, Ra’anana, November 26
  • Colloquium talk, Linguistics Dept., UC Berkeley, January 24

2018     Three talks, Communication Disorders annual conference, Tel Aviv, February, 21-23

2018      Pre- and Proto-morphology workshop, Vienna Academy of Sciences, February 22-23

2018      Invited talk, Research Workshop on Language and Literacy Development In Multilingual and Multidialectal Contexts. Bar Ilan University, March 12-14

2018      Invited talk, Religious Pedagogical Secretariat, Ministry of Education, Tel Aviv, March 22

2018      Invited talk, MALAG committee on school curricula in the 21st century, Jerusalem, April 8

2018      Invited talk, Continuing Education Program, Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University, April 13

2018      Keynote address, Launching of the Handbook of Communication Disorders, Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University, April 29

2018      Guest talk, Davidson Institute, Weizman Institute, April 30

2018      Talk and poster, 18th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, May 10-13

2018      Co-chair and organizer 4th Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Tel Aviv University, July 2-4

2018      Language and Literacy Conference, Tel Aviv University, July 11

2018      Construction Grammar(s) Conference, Sorbonne Paris Cité University, Paris, July 16-18

2018      Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading, Brighton, July 19-21

2018      SIG Writing conference, Antwerp University, August 29 – 31

  • Poster, Mental Lexicon Conference, University of Edmonton, September 25-26
  • Pre- and Proto-morphology workshop, Vienna Academy of Sciences, February 14-15

2019      Colloquium talk, Foreign Language Teaching Ben Gurion University, February 27

2019      Organizing scientific committee, talk and poster, AWLL12, Cambridge, UK, March 26 – 28

2019      Invited talk, “Functional Literacy for all (FUNLIT4ALL)” meeting, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 27-28

2019      Invited talk, School of Education Research Forum, June 3

2019      Literacy and Language conference, Achva Teachers’ College, July 9

2019      Child Language Symposium (CLShef19), Sheffield University, July 11-12

  • IX AEAL 2019, Madrid, September 4-6
  • Pre- and Proto-morphology workshop, Vienna Academy of Sciences, February 4-5

2020      Invited talk, W.U. Dressler Celebration, Vienna Academy of Sciences, February 5

2020      Organizer, Workshop on Morphological Acquisition in Semitic Languages (12 talks). 19th

International Morphology Meeting (IMM), University of Vienna, February 6-9

2020      Haifa University, Department of Hebrew language colloquium (remote), May 11

  • Ben Gurion University, Department of Hebrew language colloquium (remote), December 23
  • Pre- and Proto-morphology workshop (remote), Vienna Academy of Sciences, February 11-12

2021     Invited talk (remote), 57th Annual Israeli SLP Conference, February 18

2021    Invited talk (remote), Israeli Academy of Sciences Conference on Language Change, April 21

2021      invited talk (remote), Ministry of Education lectures for SLPs, May 30

2021      Organizer and co-chair, 5th Usage-Based Linguistics International Conference (remote), July 5-7

2021      Talk (Remote), 5th Usage-Based Linguistics International conference, July 5

2021      Talk (remote) International Association for the Study of Child Language, (Philadelphia), July 15

2021      Talk (remote), AWLL 13 (North Carolina), October 21

  • Invited talk (in-person), Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, December 16
  • Talk (remote), Morphology in production and perception workshop, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, February 8

2022     Talk (remote) Pre- and Proto-morphology workshop, Vienna Academy of Sciences, February 18

2022      Talk (remote) Webinar on syntactic markers of orthography, Université du Luxembourg, March 28

2022      Invited talk, UCL, Center for Language, Literacy and Numeracy, June 13

2022      Talk, Building Linguistic Systems conference, University of York, June 15

2022      Talk (remote), Ministry of Education SLPs, November 7

2022      Talk (remote), Ministry of Education SLPs, November 14

2022      Talk (remote), Ministry of Education / RAMA teacher instructors, November 23

2022      Invited seminar, UCL, IOE Centre for Language, Literacy and Numeracy, London, December 8

2023      Invited talk, Study Day on book reading to children, School of Education, TAU, January 30

2023      4 talks, Hebrew is a Living Language, Oranim, February 13

2023      3 talks, the Annual SLP conference, February 15

2023      5 talks, the Pre- and Proto-Morphology Meeting, Vienna Academy of Sciences, February 16-17

2023      Invited talk, “Growing into language” symposium, Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, May 30

2023     2 invited talks, Workshop “Syntax meets Orthography”, University of Luxembourg, July 6-7

2023     Conference Organizer and talk presenter, AWLL 14, Temple University, Rome, November 10-12

 

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS COMPLETED (At Tel Aviv University, unless specified otherwise)

2002                      Shalom, Tsila. The language of Hebrew language textbooks (co-supervised with Y. Shlesinger), Bar Ilan University

2006                      Alfi-Shabtay, Iris, Hebrew as a second language in Russian speakers

2008                      Kaplan, Dafna, Text comprehension and language skills in Hebrew later language acquisition (co-supervised with R.A Berman)

2010                      Avivi Ben-Zvi, Galit, Hebrew lexical and morphological development in elementary school

2010                      Herzberg, Orly, The development of early language in children with cochlear implants (co-supervised with S. Gillis, Antwerp University)

  • Bar-On, Amalia, Learning to read nonvocalized Hebrew texts in elementary school.
  • Abugov, Netta, Acquisition of noun plurals in Ultra-Orthodox Yiddish-speaking children

in Israel

  • Makai, Esther, Hebrew language skills in stutterers: a developmental study

2012                      Levie, Ronit, The development of Hebrew word formation skills in SLI and low-SES

2015                      Egoz, Topaz, Hebrew mental discourse in later language text writing

2015                      Ashkenazi, Orit, Input-output relations in the acquisition of Hebrew verbs (cosupervised by S. Gillis, Antwerp University)

  • Hora, Anat, Children’s naïve theories about language and language acquisition.
  • Raz-Salzberg, Efrat, Development of binyan functions in text production.

2020                      Salmon, Elisheva, Acquisition of Hebrew prepositions in early childhood peer talk.

  • Kandelshein, Osnat, Verbs in schoolchildren’s peer talk.
  • Haim, Leah. Development of writing in children with differing language skills

2021                     Nayditz-Rosen, Ronit. Development of Hebrew prepositions in Journey narration

2023                    Brandes, Gilad. Textual properties in developing writing abilities.

 

 

MA STUDENTS – THESES COMPLETED

Available upon request