Prof Shohamy served as the Chair of the Language Education Program for many years. Her main research areas are: Language policy, language testing and assessment, academic achievements of immigrants in schools, linguistic landscape, language in public spaces, and various other topics and issues related to multilingual societies. She is the author of numerous articles and books. Books include: The Languages of Israel: Policy, Ideology and Practice (with B. Spolsky, 1999); The Power of Tests: A Critical Perspective of Language Tests (2001); Language Policy (2006); Linguistic Landscape: Expanding the Scenery (edited with D. Gorter, 2009); and Linguistic Landscape in the City, (edited with Ben Rafael and Barni, 2010). She is the current editor of the journal Language Policy and the winner of the 2010 lifetime achievement award of ILTA (International Language Testing Association).
Hanne has been working as an EFL teacher in different settings in Israel for many years. Apart from teaching different topics she is currently working as a teacher trainer and lecturer at Kibbutzim College. Her main areas of interest are integration of technology and drama in ESL education, teaching in the heterogeneous classroom, multilingual education and educational language policies.
She was a co-founder and the first chair of H-INET, the umbrella association for English language lecturers in higher education in Israel, and now serves on H-INET's steering committee and as the co-editor of H-INET's new journal, JEPIC (Journal of English for Purposes of International Communication). Elana led the development of the CEFR-Aligned Framework for English in Higher Education in Israel and has worked on numerous assessment, professional development and curricular projects for the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture. She recently chaired the Ministry of Education’s subcommittee for the development of the Professional Framework for English Teachers 2020 and served on the subcommittee for the development of the CEFR-aligned English Curriculum 2020 for the Israeli school system. Her main areas of research are virtual exchange, English-medium instruction and internationalization, curriculum design and material development, and the integration of technology in language learning and teacher education.
Eini has worked on various projects in materials design and has published games and books for U.P.P. Her main areas of interest are technology and language learning, online course development, and AI in Education. In addition to teaching in the MA TESOL program, Karen currently teaches EAP and EMI courses at Ruppin Academic Center. She has received international recognition for her global project Friends and Flags, and was the first recipient of Global Schoolnet’s Online Shared Learning Award.
Dr Fichman's research focuses on the interfaces of Bilingualism and Speech-Language Disorders, Fluency in typical and atypical populations, and attitudes towards atypical development. In addition, Sveta conducts research in the field of EFL, focusing mainly on Pragmatic aspects of language learning and teaching. Her teaching includes courses in Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism from educational and clinical perspectives; Research Methods and Statistics.
Her research focuses on the relationship between language acquisition and cognitive development. Other research interests include development of linguistic literacy, Theory of Mind and metalinguistic awareness. She is a lecturer in the Program for Multilingual Education at Tel Aviv University. Her teaching includes courses in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism from linguistic and cognitive perspectives; Language, Thought and Culture; Contrastive Analysis and Linguistics.
Prof. Ofra Inbar (Lourie) lectures in the multilingual education department in the School of Education at Tel-Aviv University.
Her former positions include Chair of the English department at Beit Berl College, inspector of English for the Israeli Ministry of Education, chair of the MA TESOL program and founder and head of the Teacher Education Unit at Tel Aviv University. She recently served as the co-chair of the Wadmany-Inbar guidelines for teacher education programs in the colleges and universities for the K-12 Israeli school system. Her current research interests and publications focus on language teacher education, language assessment literacy and using English as the language of instruction.
Dr Ellen Hurst Harosh holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cape Town where she worked for 16 years, most recently as Associate Professor in the Humanities Education Development Unit.
In that role she taught courses on discourse analysis and academic literacies. Her research focuses on language contact and variation, youth language practices, style, register, multilingualism, and the use of African languages and English in peer interactions and educational contexts. She is on the editorial boards of Linguistics Vanguard and the Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. She is a Research Associate with the Department of Languages, Cultural Studies and Applied Linguistics at the University of Johannesburg.
Dr. Iair G. received his PhD in the Multilingual Education Program at Tel Aviv University. His primary research interests include multilingualism, language policy and planning, linguistic relativity, language teaching and assessment, and particularly the teaching of Hebrew and Arabic in Israel. His PhD thesis analyzed the beliefs and ideologies of Hebrew language planning at the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
Dr Salman also works as a teacher educator at the David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem. Her research interests include language education, language learning and teaching, second language writing and English language learning in areas of intractable conflict.
Dr Schvarcz has been a teacher educator for the Israeli Ministry of Education's Department of Professional Development of Teaching Staff for over a decade.
She is past chair of ETAI (2020–23) and a member of TESOL’s Teacher Educator Interest Section steering committee. Her research interests include formal semantics, linguistic landscape, language in areas of intractable conflict, and the role of advocacy and social justice in the language classroom. Her combined expertise in these fields has led her to design courses and publish studies which integrate theoretical knowledge with classroom practice.
Dr. Aviva Soesman holds a Ph.D. in English Linguistics from Bar Ilan University; an M.A. in TEFL from Tel Aviv University; and a B.A. in English Linguistics and General History from the Hebrew University.
She has taught, designed and coordinated EAPP courses in the Division of Languages at Tel Aviv University and other institutions of higher learning for many years. She is multilingual with knowledge of Dutch, English, Hebrew, German, French, Russian and more. Aviva’s research interests include second language acquisition, language teaching and bilingualism. Her current research focus is linguistic code-switching among typically developing and language-impaired bilingual children.
Her main research interests are language maintenance among immigrants, psychological, emotional, and familial aspects associated with language maintenance and language acquisition. Other areas of interest are minority groups, inter-group relationships, cultural implications of the minority experience, and exploration of various meeting points between language and identity among immigrant artists.
Dr Zeltxman-Kulick's main research interests are reading related aspects of adolescents' EFL learning and the design and assessment of reading intervention programs. Rita founded and runs the ESE intervention clinics, where she trains English teachers and LD specialists in the Oxford SRS method. She trains English teachers and is the head of the Remedial English Specialist Certification program at the Seminar HaKibbuzim College. She has been a high school English teacher for over three decades and has been working as a remedial English teacher for two decades.