Intercollegiate research group – Integrating Technology in Mathematics and Science Education

Intercollegiate research group – Integrating Technology in Mathematics and Science Education – Oranim College

Dr. Ruti Segal. Group leader - Faculty of Graduate Studies, Oranim Academic College, Tivon, Israel.
Email: Segal_r@oranim.ac.il.

The research group began its activities in November 2020 to investigate processes and characteristics of integrating diverse technologies in teaching and research. Key issues that the group chose to focus on: integrating technology in teaching math and science, attitudes and TPACK (Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge) of math and science teachers, and their emotions while the use various technologies environments.

The aims of the group include

• Researching language and society.

Increasing and improving intercultural communication and understanding in our society.

• Promoting multilingualism and multiculturalism in our schools and institutions of higher education, to better meet the needs of multilingual children and their teachers.

• Promotion of the use of authentic texts for teaching which emphasize both the similarities and differences between languages, societies, and cultures

• Providing undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to engage in research group projects.

Projects include

• Organization of meetings and workshops

• Advocacy to promote multilingual and multicultural education in Israel

• Improvement of intergroup relations through language teaching and learning

Research (group members publications)

Abutbol-Oz, H. and S. Joffe. (2011). “Language Proficiency, Social Integration, and Ethnic Identity among Russian-Hebrew and English-Hebrew speaking preschool children.” Hed Haulpan Hachadash, Volume 98, Spring issue. In Hebrew.

Armon-Lotem, S., S. Joffe, H. Abutbul-Oz, C. Altman, and J. Walters (2014). Language exposure, ethnolinguistic identity and attitudes in the acquisition of Hebrew as a second language among bilingual preschool children from Russian- and English-speaking backgrounds. In T. Gruter and J. Paradis (Eds.) Input and Experience in Bilingual Development (pp. 77-98). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Avirbach, B. (2020). "Arabisms in R. Judah Ibn-Tibbon's translated and original writings". In: Bar-Asher Siegal, E. and Ya'akov, D. (eds.). Medieval Hebrew and Aramaic: Studies in Language and Grammatical Thought: 67–90 (in Hebrew).

Avirbach, B. (forthcoming). "Five Roses: a comparative linguistic discussion in four Hebrew translations of Leonard Cohen's Suzanne". To be published in Al-Hassad, 10 (in Hebrew, 24 pages).

Dubiner, D. (2019). ‘Like a blind man’: Sociolinguistic perspectives of an intercultural encounter in Israel. In Espinosa Ramírez, A. B., Espinosa Villegas, M. A., & García Arévalo, T.M. (Eds.), Encuentros interculturales en sociedades multiculturales: inmigración, multiculturalismo y multiculturalidad (pp. 193-213). Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada.

Dubiner, D. (2018). ‘We don’t think about it, we just mix’: language choice and ethnolinguistic identity among Arabic-Hebrew bilinguals in Israel. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2018.1452893

Meir, N., Joffe, S., Shabtaev, R., Walters, J. & Armon-Lotem, S. (forthcoming). Heritage Languages of Israel: a multilingual tapestry with Hebrew threads. In Polinsky, M. & Montrul, S. (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics.

Schwartz, M. (2020). Strategies and practices of home language maintenance. In A. C. Schalley & S. A. Eisenchlas (Eds.), Handbook of Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development (pp. 194-217). Mouton de Gruyter.

Schwartz, M., Deeb, I. & Dubiner, D. (2020). "When they act, they speak more": Strategies that encourage language production in a bilingual preschool. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Schwartz, M., Kirsch, C., & Mortini, S. (2020). Young children’s language-based agency in multilingual contexts in Luxembourg and Israel. Applied Linguistic Review.

Zeevi, I. & Dubiner, D. (2016). Outdoor signage as a trait in the linguistic landscape during Operation Protective Edge. Linguistic Landscape: An international Journal (2)1. 80-103.

Events (e.g., meetings, conference presentations)

Avirbach, Barak. "The nominal sentence in R. Judah Ibn-Tibbon's translation of Duties of the Hearts". The 46th annual conference of the Israeli Association of Applied Linguistics. Gordon Academic College, Haifa, October 22, 2019.

Avirbach, Barak. "Medieval Hebrew Insufficiency: Was it Such a Dramatic Deficiency?". The Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University, August 6-10, 2017.

Dubiner, D. (2017). Intercultural Encounters in Israel: Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Talk given in the scientific meeting “Multiculturalism, intercultural encounters and migration: us and them”. Instituto Universitario de Investigación de la Paz y los Conflictos Dept. of Semitic Studies. University of Granada, Spain. May 22-24, 2017.

Dubiner, D. (2016). Language in a Multicultural Reality. Invited talk and workshop, Safed Academic College, February 2016.

Dubiner, D. (2015). Identity and multi-diversity reflected in the LL of a Druze town in Israel. Linguistic Landscape 7, May 7-9, UC Berkeley, California.

Joffe, Susan. "An adult migration model of second language motivation" paper presentation at Conference on Multilingualism, Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism, University of Reading, June 23-25, 2020.

Joffe, Susan. "Identity, Motivation, and Language use among Spanish-Hebrew adult bilinguals in Israel" poster presentation at Scientific and Societal Contributions of Research in Multilingual and Multicultural Communities Conference, Bar Ilan University, June 4-6, 2018.

Joffe, Susan. "Immigration without integration: Ultra-orthodox immigrants to Israel" paper presentation at 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Limerick, Ireland, June 11-15, 2017.

Schwartz, Mila. “Creating Language-conducive Context in Preschool Multilingual Education” invited keynote speaker at the International Conference of Multilingual Awareness and Multilingual Practices, University of Tallinn, Estonia, November 22-24, 2018.

Schwartz, Mila. “Towards a Better Understanding of Child's Agentic Behavior in a Novel Language Learning” invited keynote speaker at the International Conference of Multilingual Childhoods: Education, Policy and Practice, University of Hamar, Norway, May 14-16, 2019.