ERIC ED384253: English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1992.

264 Pages·1992·3.6 MB·English

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DOCUMENT RESUME
ED 384 253
FL 023 140
TITLE
English Teachers' Journal (Israel),
1992.
INSTITUTION
Ministry of Education and Culture,
Jerusalem
(Israel). English Inspectorate.
PUB DATE
92
NOTE
264p.; Incorporating "English Teaching
Guidance." For
numbers 42-43. see FL 023 139.
PUB TYPE
Collected Works - Serials (022)
-- Guides
Classroom
Use
Instructional Materials (For Learner) (051)
Guides - Classroom Use
Teaching Guides (For
Teacher) (052)
JOURNAL CIT
English Teachers' Journal (Israel); n44-45
1992
EDRS PRICE
MF01/PC11 Plus Postage.
DESCRIPTORS
Classroom Research; *Educational Television;
Elementary Secondary Education; *English (Second
Language); Foreign Countries; *Heterogeneous
Grouping; Language Teachers; Oral Language;
Reading
Skills; *S,Icond Language Instruction; *Special
Needs
Students; Teacher Attitude-IT-Teacher Role; Teaching
Methods; Test Coaching; Textbook Evaluation;
*Textbook Selection; Transfer of
Training;
Translation; Word Processing; Written
Language
IDENTIFIERS
*Israel
ABSTRACT
This document consists of the two issues
of "English
Teachers' Journal (Israel)" issued during 1992.
Articles include:
"Information for English Teachers"; "Announcements
for Bagrut
Teachers and Examiners"; "News from Educational
Television" (Lily
Vered and Others); "News from E.T.A.I. (English
Teachers' Association
of Israel)" (Brenda Liptz and Others); "Word
Processing in the
Classroom" (Arlyne Gozali); "Teaching English
in Heterogeneous
Classes in the Intermediate (Junior High) School";
" What Do the
Various Final Examination Levels Signify?"
(Raphael Gefen); "Teaching
Reading Skills and Strategies" (Tamar Feuerstein);
"Of Creativity,
Fun and Challenge" (Ellen Gordon); "How
To Begin Your Lesson Feeling
Good and End It Feeling Better" (Lenny Ravich);
"Studying EFL,
Teaching EFL, and Training Teachers of
EFL: A Triangle, A
Parallelogram, and/or A Circle?" (Dvora Kalekin-Fishman);
"Vocabulary: Desk Versus Table" (Zelda Torna);
"Evaluating School
Textbooks According to Humanistic Criteria" (Michael
Toben); "Abra
Cadabr3--A New Program for Initial Reading" (Gila
Gevint and Others);
"I'm Me--I'm Special" (Elena Rechtman);
"An Uncommon Language--The
Use of the Present Perfect in British
and American English" (Hannah
Horowitz); "Guessing Is Good--Using
the Computer in Class" (Miriam
Marcus); "Choose the Most Suitable
Title" (Eleanor Avinor and Marsha
Bensoussan); "Supplement on Teaching 'Translation
Skills' and on
Issues of Language Transfer" (Maria Julia Saintz
and Others);
"Classroom Research--The Teacher
as a Researcher in the Foreign
Language Classroom" (Judy Steiner); "A Welcome
Plentitude: English
Textbooks in Israeli Schools" (Raphael Gefen);
"Teaching Weak
Learners" (Shosh Safriri); "Working with
New Teachers" (Paula
Friedland); "The Oral Exam
as a Means To Prepare Students for tLe
Written Bagrut" (Ilene Plaut); "A Tri-Lingual
Situation: Russian
Immigrants at Israeli Universities" (Marsha
Bensoussan and Others);
"'Extensive Reading' in the Intermediate
School: A Choice of
'Readers'" (Jennifer Elmaliach); "Teaching
Through fleeting: A
Dialogical Attitude" (Lenny Ravich);
"Teaching Native Speakers:
Problems and Suggested Guidelines" (Raquelle
Azran); "The
Co-Existence Daisy" (Salah Mahajna
and Yael Harel); and "Not
a Sacred
Text,
[or] Educational Journalism" (Susan
Bellos). Synopses in Hebrew
of the contents of the issue
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ENGLISH TEACHERS' JOURNAL (Israel)
(incorporating ENGLISH TEACHING GUIDANCE)
Number 44, May 1992
CONTENTS
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INFORMATION FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS
5
FELT01 Constitution; ISRATESOL; UTELI; CONTACT: Newspapers in Simplified English;
New Syllabus (repeat announcement); Computer Software
February 1992 Update; English
Native Speakers; Course on Dyslexia
ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR BAGRUT TEACHERS AND EXAMINERS
15
Bagrut Results Summar 1991; Language Errors by Examinees; Dyslexic and Dysgraphie
Pupils; New Immigrant Examinees
NEWS FROM EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION
A. English for 4 Point Bagrut
In Class
18
Lily Vered and Tamar Feuerstein
B. Candy Can Do It
Love at First Sight
21
Tsaffi Ben Shachar
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NEWS FROM E.T.A.L (English Teachers' Association of Israel)
Report from Chairperson Brenda Liptz
23
ETAI Winter Conference 1991 Programme
26
ETAI Conference Workshop Reports
Adaptation of Textbook Activities. Judy Steiner
- Teaching Heterogeneous Classes
30
- Learning to Read English as a Foreign Language in Israel, Avril Rose
32
- A Positive Learning Climate in the Early Stages, Elana Rechtman
34
- Debate in the English Classroom, Evan Fallenberg
35
- Introducing New Vocabulary
Techniques with a Difference, Ella Mazor
36
Teaching Literature and Poetry in Yud-Aleph and Yud-Bet, Ilan Yacohi
37
Teaching and Learning Writing in the Heterogeneous High School Classroom,
Irtt Kupferberg
37
WORD PROCESSING IN THE CLASSROOM
38
Arlyne Gozali
TEACHING ENGLISH IN HETEROGENEOUS CLASSES IN THE INTERMEDIATE
(JUNIOR HIGH) SCHOOL
43
1.
course report
WHAT DO THE VARIOUS FINAL EXAMINATION LEVELS SIGNIFY?
48
Raphael Gefi.n
TEACHING READING SKILLS AND STRATEGIES
52
Tamar Feuerstein
OF CREATIVITY, FUN AND CHALLENGE
54
Ellen Gordon
HOW TO BEGIN YOUR LESSON FEELING GOOD, AND END IT FEELING BETTER
60
Lenny Ravich
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STUDYING EFL, TEACHING EFL, AND TRAINING TEACHERS OF EFL: A TRIANGLE,
A PARALLELOGRAM, AND/OR A CIRCLE?
63
Dvora Kalekin-Fishman
VOCABULARY: DESK VERSUS TABLE
67
Zelda Torna
EVALUATING SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS ACCORDING TO HUMANISTIC CRITERIA
75
Michael Toben
A NEW PROGRAM FOR INITIAL READING
ABRA CADABRA
80
Gila Gevint with Patricia Fohrman and Aryeh Wohl
IM ME
IM SPECIAL
83
Elana Rechtman
THE USE OF THE PRESENT PERFECT IN BRITISH
AN UNCOMMON LANGUAGE
AND AMERICAN ENGLISH
86
Hannah Horowitz
USING THE COMPUTER IN CLASS
GUESSING IS GOOD
92
Miriam Marcus
CHOOSE THE MOST SUITABLE TITLE
94
Eleanor Avinor and Marsha Bensoussan
SUPPLEMENT ON TEACHING "TRANSLATION SKILLS" AND ON ISSUES OF
LANGUAGE TRANSFER
98
A. first Steps to Translation
98
Maria Julia Saintz
B. Some Suggestions for Teaching Applied Linguistics
Translation
102
E.A. Levenston
C. Some Reflections on Teaching "Translation Skills"
107
Picini Balks
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
109
from: Eliezer Marcus, Esther Lucas, Hanna Birnbaum, Alan Lipsey, Nelson Berkoff, Miriam
Greiff and Jaye Shlayer and Judy Steiner, Yosef Shaheen and Jim Wingate, Geoff Toister,
Fred Daniels, Rachel Saperstein, Friends Forever Pen-Pals, Carol Goldfus, Janet Ohana,
Participants in the Course for Heterogeneous Class Teaching.
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS
119
SYNOPSES IN HEBREW OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE
122
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INFORMATION FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS
FELTOI Constitution (communication from Dr. Esther Lucas)
The name of the organization will be FELTOI
Federation of English Language
1.
Teaching Organizations of Israel: Contact, ETAI, ISRATESOL, UTELI, English
Inspectorate (Ministry of Education), English Advisory Committee (Ministry of
Education).
The goal of the Federation will be to coordinate the activities of organizations
2.
concerned with the teaching of English in Israel, to serve as representative of the
profession within Israel and internationally, to promote the interests of English
teaching in Israel and to provide a forum for the discussion of professional issues
affecting national policy and standards.
All members of the affiliated organizations will be members of the Federation.
3.
Each affiliate will maintain complete independence in its own affairs, in policy and
in financial matters.
The affairs of the Federation will be directed by a council with the following
4.
members: one representative and alternate from each affiliate. The council may by
a majority vote decide to add new organizations with representation.
The council will have the following officers: chair, elected by the council each year
5.
at its first meeting; and executive secretary, elected by the council to serve for three
years. Officers will be chosen from the members of the council.
International representation: (a) ISRATESOL, being an affiliate of International
6.
TESOL, will represent FELTOI relations with that body. (b) ETAI, being a branch
of IATEFL, will represent FELTOI in relations with that body.
The British Council and the USIS will be invited to send a representative to Council
7.
meetings with observer status. Founders of the Federation, Dov Spolsky, Raphael
Gefen and Elite Olshtain, if not elected to the Council, will be honorary non-voting
members.
The Council will meet at least twice a year.
8.
(for further information, see "ENGLISH TEACHERS' JOURNAL (Israel)", 43,
December 1991; please note the change of name from the original "I FELTO").
ISRATESOL (communication from Dr. Esther Lucas)
ISRATESOL was founded in 1979 as an affiliate of TESOL, an international professional
organization for those concerned with the teaching of English as a second or foreign
language and of standard English as a dialect. TESOL has independent affiliates
outside the U.S.
throughout the United States and in a growing number of countries
six times a
TESOL publishes "TESOL Quarterly" four times a year, "TESOL Matters"
times yearly. In addition, some sixteen newsletters
year, and the "TESOL Journal" four
A TESOL convention takes place annually
are put out by he special interest sections.
in the spring, usually in the United States.
ISRATESOL membership consists of researchers, university and teacher training
college lecturers, doctoral and MA students, members of the English inspectorate, and
interested classroom teachers. General meetings take place two or three times a year
and a 40-page Newsletter is published annually reporting some of the research being
Convention each
undertaken in Israel. Delegates of ISRATESOL attend the TESOL
year.
ISRATESOL has been involved in the TESOL Mediterranean/ European Region
and representatives have attended meetings in Europe.
ISRA. 'ESOL receives newsletters from TESOL affiliates in a number of different
countries. These may be seen at the ISRATESOL office, Room 252, Sharett Building,
Tel Aviv University, by applying to the secretary, Joan Abarbanel, Tel. [phone],
Sunday through Thursday.
Elite Olshtain, President
Officers of ISRATESOL for 1992 are: Hon. President
Hezzy Brosh, Newsletter
Joan Abarbanel, Treasurer
Esther Lucas, Secretary
Helen Katznelson and Yael Harel,
Hadara Perpignan, Liaison Officers
Editor
Yael Bejarano, Susan Holzman, Valerie Jakar, Hellen Levitin, Thea Reyes,
Members
and Miriam Schcolnik.
Membership fees for 1992 are 15 I.S. and new members are welcome.
UTELI (communication from Shimona Kushner, Technion)
University Teachers of English Language in Israel is a professional organization
UTELI
for teachers of English as a foreign language at those institutions in Israel offering
academic degrees. The main purpose of the organization is to further the professional
standards of EFL at the universities. The organization also serves as a permanent
liaison between these institutions and their EFL programs. Once every two years
UTELI hosts a one-day roundtable conference in which members present ongoing
research and findings or exchange ideas in a variety of fields. Once every two years
UTELI hosts a two-day conference which invites leading people in the field of EFL from
abroad to share their knowledge, in addition to the presentation of papers from local
members.
For more information contact the UTELI preside. t, Shimona Kushner, Department
Israel Institute of Technology, Neve Shaanan, Haifa,
of General Studies, Technion
32000, Tel. [phone] or 04-221532
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Newspapers in Simplified English
The GOOD TIMES Publishing Company issues the following monthly newspapers:
for Grades 5, weaker 6, good Grade 4.
ABC Times
for Grades 6 and weaker 7.
Just for You
for Grades 7, 8, 9.
Good Times
for Grades 11, 12. News stories, features, Bagrut-style passages and
Bagrut Times
exercises, glossary.
Address: GOOD TIMES, P.O.B. 3576, Jerusalem 91035, Tel: [phone].
THE JERUSALEM POST publishes the following monthly newspapers:
for Grades 7-9, and less advanced pupils in upper grades.
Hey There!
Student Post
for Grades 10-12.
for weaker older learners (GEMER or less). Short news items and features,
Yours
amply illustrated, glossary.
Address: THE JERUSALEM POST, P.O.B. 81, Jerusalem 91000, Tel: [phone],
02-551616, Ext. 293.
New English Syllabus for Schools (repeat notice)
Every teacher and student-teacher should possess a copy, since the syllabus is not just a
catalogue of structures, items and aims, but a guideline to methodology and classroom
practice. Chapter headings are the following:
1. Aims and Objectives; 2. Communicative Competence
PART ONE: RATIONALE
and Performance; 3. Communicative Methodology; 4. Differential Syllabus for Less-
Able Learners; 5. Evaluation of Pupils; 6. Courseware.
7. Objectives for Primary School, Interme-
PART TWO: GRADED OBJECTIVES
diate School (Division), Upper School (Division); 8. Grammar Programme; 9. Lexicon;
10. Script Handwriting; 11. Punctuation Rules to be Taught; 12. Some Recommended
Situations and Topics; 13. Addendum: Teaching English to "Native Speakers".
The syllabus is available from the publishers "Maalot", Rahov Karlebach 29, Tel Aviv;
Mada, Herzl 49, Haifa; Radik, Gershon 25, Beersheba; Lotos, Allenby 99; Tel Aviv;
Tamil., Ben- Yehuda 2, Jerusalem; Eric Cohen Books, Rehov Hasadna 7, Raanana,
P.O.B. 2325 (Tel. [phone], 455345).
The Teacher Trainers' Association of Israel (communication from
"CONTACT"
Sheila Been, chairperson)
We look back on our term of office in wonder! Is it possible that two years have
gone by so quickly and on the whole so pleasantly? This is particularly amazing
7
when we remember our misgivings on taking office; our predecessors, led by Dvora
Kalekin-Fishman and ably helped by Gita Kornfeld and Thilde Fox, had done a
sterling job, and the thought of following in their footsteps was a daunting one. At
our first executive meeting, therefore, we decided simply to follow established policies
as these, it seemed, met the needs of CONTACT members.
CONTACT has three spheres of activity:
* It convenes two seminars per year: a two-day live-in seminar during Succoth, usually
led by a guest speaker from abroad, and a one-day seminar with local presenters during
Pesach.
* It organizes sub-committees which work on areas of special interest and which
then publish a report on their work in the
Dvora Kalekin-Fishman,
Year Book.
who took a special interest in these sub-committees and who supervised the previous
undertook to continue her responsibility for this sphere
publication of the
fear Book,
of activity.
* it publishes a biannual newsletter which keeps members up to date with CONTACT
news and includes book reviews, letters to the editor and any unsolicited items that
come to the CONTACT desk.
It is important to understand that the "CONTACT desk" is in Debby's office at
the British Council. It is with the support (financial, administrative and moral) of the
British Council that CONTACT is able to conduct such a busy programme. Indeed,
CONTACT is run under the auspices of the British Council and is deeply appreciative
of its favoured status.
Over the last two years, we have had the pleasure of meeting and hearing two
guest speakers, Cynthia Beresford of Pilgrims' Language School and Deri Hughes of
International House. We have also enjoyed talks from a number of local speakers. Some
recounted and commented on their experiences in the USA as Fullbright scholars; a
number of Russian immigrants described the status of English in (the late) Soviet
Union; several inspectors and counsellors reported on the numerous courses being
conducted by the Ministry of Education and Culture for the purpose of helping new
immigrant children and equipping Russian teachers for teaching in the Israeli school
system. Finally, at the last seminar to be convened by this committee (April 1992)
Raphael Gefen will be our main speaker, on the theme "Is a negotiated curriculum
viable?", as well as Yitzchak Einav and Ofra Inbar, who will conduct a workshop
entitled "The Non-Frontal Teaching Phobia." At this seminar we will also be hosting
a party for Raphael Gefen to mark his retirement as Chief Inspector (but certainly
not as an active member of the profession!).
As this executive committee reaches the end of its tenure I as chairperson, would like
to offer my thanks to the committee members. The functioning of this committee has
been an excellent example of what Dwight Allen once caller, "The Garland Principle"
the principle of teamwork in which each member brings a different contribution;
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