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Doctoral students*

Elda Weizman (with Chaim Rabin)

1982

Discourse characteristics of journalistic language in French and Hebrew, and implications for translation: Utterances in quotation marks

Ester Ziv (with Brenda Danet)

1989

The power of language in asymmetrical encounters

Nurit Peled-Elhanan

1994

Between speech and writing- the development of oral and written texts at school 3rd-9thgrade

Esther Vardi-Rath

2002

The role of discourse in the construction of social reality in the classroom: Control and politeness in teacher talk

Nava Nevo

2003

Male and female discourse styles within the family context: The Israeli case

Tzfira Lichtman-Grabelski (with Ya'acob Shamir)

2003

Verbal and nonverbal discrepancy and non-discrepancy of support and challenge in interpersonal communication

Michal Hamo

2005

Televised images of conversation in Israel

Ruth Nevat-Gal

2007     

Cognitive socialization in the discourse of Israeli families

Zohar Kampf

2007

Apologies in the Israeli public discourse

Hana Avni

2008

Metapragmatic talk with and among children

Hana Zimerman

2008

Science discourse among young children

Efrat Mor

2009

Pretend play in preschool as an arena for the development of literate discourse

Talia Habib

2009

Collaboration among peer children in conversational storytelling within natural settings

Sara Zadunaisky

2011

Argumentative discourse in kindergarten children: A comparison between Peer talk and Children-teacher talk

Naomi Gorbat

Submitted

Between two Languages: Language, society and culture in natural discourse between young Immigrants and their peers in kindergarten

Abeer Shahin

Submitted

The contribution of narrative discourse abilities to reading comprehension among Arab children: Kindergarten and 4th grade

 

Master Students**

Mazal Sheniak (with Robert Cooper)

1985

Studies in classroom discourse: Proposed method for analyzing verbal interactionin the classroom, based on empirical research

Eti Cohen

1988

Restructuring story scheme among mentally challenged students

Neta Ziskind (with Yaakov Shamir)

1988

Survey questions as social discourse markers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Leslie Polss

1990

Starting the story: A cross-cultural analysis of conversational story entry talk [in English]

Ilona Ben-Moshe

1991

Detecting obstacles to reading comprehension in various text types

Brenda Kurland

1992

The role of language choice and language mixing in language socialization [Harvard University, in English]

Mayumi Usami

1994

Politeness and the Japanese conversational strategies: Implications for the teaching of Japanese [Harvard University, in English]

Zehava de Ber

1995

Israeli and American- Israeli children’s stories at dinnertime

Talya Habib

1996

Family discourse, literacy and level of education

Talya Miron-Shatz

1996

The Impact of affective closeness on rate of indices for emotional involvement in responsive utterances

Ruth Neugarten (whith Rachel Weissbrod)

1996

Norms and trends in translating books for young readers from English to Hebrew from the 1950s to the 1990s

Olga Gersehnzon

1997

Pragmatic failure within Russian-Israeli interaction: The speech act of complaint

Tzipora Saks

1997

"But the one who wits not to ask - It is for thee to discuss it with him": A study about pre-reading self questioning strategy

Michal Kirzner (with Shimon Sandbank)

1998

The conception of anger in Victorian literature and in translation for children and the socializing message which are delivered through it to the readers (BA Honors Degree)

Gonnen Hacohen (with Menachem Blondheim)

2001

Jewish argumentation: Conversational features of two forms of arguments in Israel

Ruth Avidar

2001

The discourse between an organization and its environment: Buying and selling encounters in Israel

Rivka Shahar Neriya (with Yoram Peri)

2002

Images of women in the Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) press

Abeer Shahin (with Elite Olshtain)

2006

Promoting literate discourse skills among Arabic speaking preschool children: An intervention study

Deborah Korsitz

2007

Preschool and fourth grader children's explanations of games: Age differences and the development of extended discourse

Yulia Minkov

2010

Second language acquisition in preschooler children's explanations: Differences with native speakers and the development of extended discourse

Anat Regev (with Zohar Kampf)

In progress

Children talking television : The role of TV in the socio-cultural world of children


·        *Unless otherwise indicated, the thesis is in Hebrew
** This list might be incomplete. We are aware of details missing for two former students: Rimona Gerson and Hadas Sheffer.