Describes a radio program in an English-as-a-Foreign-Language classroom in Israel. Classrooms of English students listen carefully to daily broadcasts, waiting to solve the brain teaser. Personal messages and catchy music follow the program. The project has encouraged students to use English actively and purposefully. Evaluation of the broadcasts…

Describes an Anne Frank project, an interdisciplinary project designed for English-as-a-Foreign-Language students in Israel. The project was conceived of for Grade 11 students, because they learn about the Holocaust in history and are tested on it in the history Bagrut examination. (Author/VWL)

Discusses how each of the four domains of Israel's New English Curriculum takes on additional definitions in the age of the Internet. Provides Internet addresses for both new and experienced Internet users. (Author/VWL)

Focuses on how teachers can remain professionally inspired and advocates the need for different kinds of communities to help encourage and maintain inspiration for teaching(Author/VWL)

Describes a project that dealt with two short stories in a different way. The stories were part of the Oral Bagrut exam for Grade 11 students. The stories were taught in English class and concentrated on theme and vocabulary. (Author/VWL)

One teacher's experience using computers to teach English to seventh and ninth graders in Jerusalem are reported. Advantages of computer-assisted instruction are noted. (LB)

Describes a statistical method for evaluating the translation equivalence of language test items that are scored dichotomously. Provides an illustration of the method to a portion of the verbal subtest of the Psychometric Entrance Test, which is a large-scale postsecondary admissions test used in Israel. (VWL)

Provides a rationale for content-based instruction and demonstrates how project work can be integrated into content-based classrooms. Outlines the primary characteristics of project work, introduces project work in its various configurations, and presents practical guidelines for sequencing and developing a project. (Author/VWL)

Numerous cases are used to illustrate language mistakes made by Hebrew-speaking students learning English. Teachers' and students' reactions to error correction are discussed, and some linguistic reasons for errors (e.g., mother-tongue interference) are suggested. (12 references) (LB)

Applied principles presented in several publications aimed at providing a link between research and teaching and making research findings accessible to teachers of Israel's New Curriculum and consolidated the findings into ten principles that appear to be most comprehensive. (Author/VWL)

From different viewpoints, the relationships among studying English as a foreign language (EFL), teaching EFL, and training teachers of EFL are likened to those of triangle, parallelogram, and circle. Goal-setting, organizational/situational analysis, and task analysis are discussed. (two references) (LB)

Provides an overview of the Israeli standards-based curriculum for the teaching of English in Israeli schools. Includes the standards for the four domains of language learning and the standards and benchmarks for one of the domains: social interaction. (Author/VWL)

Early diagnosis of selective mutism (SM) is an important concern. SM prevalence is higher than initially thought and at least three times higher in immigrant language minority children. Although the DSM-IV precludes diagnosing SM in immigrant children with limited language proficiency (as children acquiring a second language may normally undergo a…

Describes on Israeli English-as-a-Foreign-Language teacher's experience with a multimedia project in Grade 11 5-point Bagrut classes and with Grade 10 native speakers. (Author/VWL)

It is important to teach dictionary skills to elementary English-as-a-Second-Language students. An English learner's dictionary is a student's main source of information when lacking human help, and though English words may be forgotten, the dictionary skill is learned for life. This article discusses how to include dictionary use in an exam and…