Elana Shohamy
Tel Aviv University
83 Papers
477 Citations
Elana Shohamy is an academic researcher from Tel Aviv University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Language assessment & Language policy. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 77 publications.
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Papers
Toward a New Multilingual Educational Policy in Israel: Attitudes and Perceptions of Teachers and Students
TL;DR: In this paper, a study aimed to map teachers and students' attitudes toward various principles and practices of multilingual education in order to gather baseline data for the development of a new multilingual policy for the country's education system.
Reflections on Research Guidelines, Categories, and Responsibility
TL;DR: The TESOL guidelines for quantitative and qualitative research as discussed by the authors are comprehensive, detailed, informative, and broad in scope, and are useful for planning research, writing up research articles and reports, and reading research critically.
The validity of direct versus semi- direct oral tests
TL;DR: This article examined the validity of two oral language tests - one direct and one semi-direct - and concluded that concurrent validity of the two types of tests was high, a variety of qualitative analyses indicated that the two tests differed in a number of aspects.
Language Policy and Language Assessment: The Relationship
TL;DR: In the past decade, major attention has been given to the power of tests and to the pivotal roles tests play in societies in shaping the definitions of language, affecting learning and teaching.
Beyond Proficiency Testing: A Diagnostic Feedback Testing Model for Assessing Foreign Language Learning
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model of testing in which tests become sources of meaningful information about the improvement of foreign language learning, and describe the background for and rationale of the model and provide a description of its components, processes, operations and applications.