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Elana Shohamy, Ph.D.
School of Education
Tel Aviv University
Personal Background
Birth Place:New York City
Address:School of Education
Tel Aviv University
Israel 69978
Tel: 972-3-640-8467
e-mail:
Home Address: 5, Hashoftim St., Tel Aviv, Israel 64355
Tel: 972-3-528-3086
Educational Background
1974 - 1978Ph.D., University of Minnesota, School of Education,
Second Language Learning, Measurement & Evaluation
Dissertation Title: Investigation of concurrent validity of theOral Interview test with the Cloze procedure for measuring language proficiency
Advisors: Professors Dale Lange and Helen Jorstad
1979 - 1981Post Doctorate: Stanford University, School of Education
Second Language Acquisition, immigration and Testing
Sponsor: Professor Robert Politzer
Most Recent Academic Background
2000-current Full Professor, Language Education
Chair, Language Education Program
School of Education, Tel Aviv University
(teaching courses such as: Language Testing/assessment, Critical language testing, SLA research methods, Second language acquisition, Language policy, Immigrants and school acheivements, Multilingualism in Israel, Criticalapplied linguistics, English in a global world, Language inpublic spaces (linguistic landscape)).
1993- 2000 Associate professor, Language Education
Chair, Language Education Program
School of Education, Tel Aviv University
1986 - 1992 Senior Lecturer (tenured)
Language Education Program, Tel Aviv University
Most Recent Academic Appointments
2005 (spring)Visiting Professor, School of Language and Linguistics Georgetown University, Washington, DC. (teaching: Language Testing and Language Policy)
2006 (spring) Visiting Professor, School of Language and LinguisticsGeorgetown University, Washington, DC. (teaching: Language Testing, Language Policy, Jewish languages)
2007 (spring) Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley, California (teaching: Language PolicyLanguage learning of immigrants in schools)
Editorial boards:Language assessment quarterly, Modern language journal, Iternational journal of bilingualism, Critical inquiry in language studies, IMJR, among others
Most Recent Visiting/Teaching Professorships
Spring, 2005 Visiting Professor, School of Language and Linguistics
Georgetown University, Washington, DC. (teaching
Language Testing and Language Policy)
2005, Summer AAAL Summer school of Applied Linguistics,
Penn State University
Fall, 2005 Teaching language testing: Odense Univ. Denmark
Spring 2005, Visiting Professor, School of Language and Linguistics
Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Spring, 2006 Spring, 2006
Spring, 2007 UC Berekeley, California, School of Education
Most recent Appointments
1982 - PresentCo-chair and Founder
Academic Committee for Research on Language
Testing (ACROLT), Israel
1992 - Present Editorial Board of Modern Language Journal
2000 - Present Co-editor book series on Language Policy for (Springer)
2000 AAAL nominating committee
2000 -2006 Associate editor, the journal Language Policy
2007- Current Editor, the journal Language Policy (Springer)
2008, Jan Organizing and chair of inaugural conf on linguistic
Landscape, Tel Aviv University
2009-2010 Nomination committee AAAL, life time award
Most Recent Publications
1. Shohamy, E. and Gorter D. (eds.) 2009. Linguistic landscape: Expanding the scenery, Routledge, London
2. Shohamy, E and Kanza T., 2009, Language and citizenship in Israel. Language Assessment Quarterly, 6, 1., 83-87.
3. Shohamy, E and Waksman, S. 2009. Linguistic Landscape as an ecological arena: Modalities, meanings, negotiations, education. In Shohamy, E. and Gorter, D, eds. Linguistic Landscape, Expanding the scenery, Routledge. 313-331
4. Shohamy, E., 2009. Language tests for immigrants: Why language? why tests? Why citizenship? pages 45-59 in Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle, Mar-Molinero Clare and Patrick Stevenson, eds. Discourses on Language and Integration, John Benjaims,
5. Shohamy, E. & Nancy H. Hornberger (eds.), 2008. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 7: Language Testing and Assessment. Springer
6. McNamara, T., and Shohamy, E. 2008. Language tests and human rights
International Journal of Applied Linguistics 18, 1 , 89–95. (review article)
7.Levin, T. and Shohamy, E. 2008, Achievement of Immigrant Students in Mathematics and Academic Hebrew in Israeli School: A large Scale Evaluation Study, Studies in Educational Evaluation, 34, 1-14.
8. Shohamy, E. 2008, Overview: Language policy and language assessment: The relationship. Current issues in language policy and language planning. 9, 3. 363-373.
9. Shohamy, E, Inbar, O, and Phoener, M. 2008. Investigating AssessmentPerceptions and Practices in the Advanced Foreign Language Classroom. Research report, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) The Pennsylvania State University
10. Shohamy, E. 2007. Reinterpreting globalization in the multilingual contexts. International Multilingual Research Journal, 1, 2, 127-133.
11. Shohamy, E. 2006. Language policy: Hidden agendas and new approaches Routledge: London
12. Shohamy, E. and Inbar, O. 2006. Evaluating English programs of first grade learners
in English taught by home-room teachers vs. ‘professional’ English teachers. Report submitted to the Ministry of Education, Jan 1 2006.
Most Recent Invited Plenary Talks
August, 2008 plenary talk, National conference on teaching education, Medillin, Colombia
September 2007, Siena, Italy, conf on language documentation
September 2007, AALA conference, Plenary talk Macquarie University, Sydney
February, 2007 conf on Jewish languages, Georgetown University
April, 2007 pleanry talk, CABE, Long Beach CaliforniaJuly, 2007, plenary talk, National conf on Dual immersion
September, 2007, plenary talk, Conference on Languge Policy, Tallin, Estonia
December, 2007 plenary talk, conference on minority languages, Friesland, Netherlands
Most Recent Funded Research Projects
1998-2002Academic achievements of immigrant children in schools in Israel (a national study supported by the Israeli Ministry of Education)
2000-2001Linguistic landscape of Hebrew and Arabic in Jewish and Arab towns in Israel (supported by the Steiinmitzcenter for Peace.
2002-2004 Effect of the new TOEFL on teaching and learning of English.
2004-2005 Evaluation of the English language teaching in first grade in Israeli schools by home-room teachers.