- Personal
- Education
- Fields of Research
- Academic Positions
- Research Grants
- Supervision of Theses
- List of Publications
- Selected Papers at Scientific Conferences
Personal
Tel: 972-9-778-1143
Fax: 972-9-778-0601
E-mail: esterkl@openu.ac.il
Languages: English, French, Hebrew, German, Hungarian, Yiddish
Education
| 1996 | Certificate in Online Education and Training, Institute of Education, University of London and Lancaster University |
| 1994 | Ph.D. Institute of Education, University of London. Prof. H. Widdowson, Advisor. ESOL Department. Applied Linguistics, Reading Comprehension for Academic Purposes and Distance Education |
| 1983 | M.A. Institute of Education, University of London, Media Department. Film and TV Studies for Education |
| 1979 | ESL/EFL Teacher's Certificate, Royal Society of Arts, International House Teacher Training College, London |
| 1977 | B.A. Westfield College, University of London, Romance Languages and Literature |
| 1970 | Teacher's Certificate in Education, Maria Assumpta College, University of London |
Fields of Research
- Distance Education and Online Delivery Systems
- Media and Multimedia in ELT
- Reading for Academic Purposes
- Teacher Training
- ELT Pedagogy
- Curriculum Development
- Design and development of open learning resources
- Design of CALL internet-based tools to support computer-assisted reading of academic texts in English
Academic Positions
| 2002 - | Head of the English Department, The Open University of Israel |
| 1997 - 2002 | Director of Distance Learning Programs; Designer of asynchronous multimedia courseware, English Department |
| 1991 - 1997 | Pedagogical advisor for online in-service teacher training programs and academic reading courses |
| 1987 - 1991 | Coordinator of intermediate level reading comprehension courses |
| 1994 - 2002 | Institute of Education, University of London, Director of Israel MA programmes for teachers of English in Israel |
| 2000 | Distance Learning Consultant to Yeshiva University, New York |
| 1999 - 2000 | Educational Television of Israel, Ministry of Education - Academic Advisor for EFL program |
| 1995 - 1997 | David Yelin Teacher's Training College, Jerusalem - Head of English Department |
| 1994 - 1995 | Talpiot Teacher's Training College; Tel-Aviv - Lecturer in EFL: Academic Reading and Language Proficiency |
| 1980 - 1987 | The English Workshop Language School. London, England - Director and Lecturer |
| 1992 | Visiting Lecturer, Summer Institute, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus |
| 1991 - 1992 | Consultant: Cable Television, Educational Projects - Using cable to reinforce ESL and EFL |
Research Grants
| 2008 | Open University Research Authority, Mapping the territory: Identifying barriers to implementation of OLRs among university English teachers (with I. Barth) |
| 2008 | Inter-University Center for E-learning (MEITAL), Development of open learning resources to support acquisition of English academic vocabulary (with I. Barth) |
Supervision of Theses
- Supervised 17 MA Dissertations, Institute of Education, University of London
List of Publications
Books and Monographs
Motivation: Is the Payoff Worth the Effort? (with A. Wohl). Academic Yearbook, Tel Aviv: Talpiot Teachers' College Press (1986, Hebrew).
The Testing Dilemma: Current Research versus Current Practice in Testing Reading (with A. Wohl). Academic Yearbook, Tel Aviv: Talpiot Teachers' College Press (1995, Hebrew).
Chapters in Books
"Windows to the World - Connecting to the Global Village: A Teaching Model for Integrating Content, Language and Literacy" (with A. Wohl), in S. Guri- Rosenblatt, Ed.,Teachers in a Changing World: Trends and Challenges (pp. 325-355). The Open University, 2004.
"What first-language teachers can learn from second-language teachers," in A. Wohl and M. Horovitz, Eds., Reading: From Theory to Practice (Chapter 5, pp. 300-325). Tel Aviv: The Open University, 2002.
"The inter-relationships between second and first language teaching/learning" (with A. Wohl), in Miri Horowitz, Section Ed., Teaching Reading: From Theory to Practice, Vol. 5 (pp. 110-143). Tel Aviv: The Open University, 2000.
"Teaching and learning the language arts with cooperative learning methods" (with A. Wohl), in Shlomo Sharan, Ed., Handbook of Cooperative Learning. Wesport, CO: The Greenwood Educator's Reference Collection, 1994.
Open University Publications
| 2000 | Reading English for Academic Purposes, Course of study for the Open University of Israel, Distance Learning Mode. |
| 1999 | Applied Linguistics for Teachers of EFL, Course of study for Open University of Israel, Distance Learning Mode. |
| 1999 | Teaching Methodology for Teachers of EFL, Course of study for Open University of Israel, Distance Learning Mode. |
| 1994-1997 | Reading English for Academic Purposes, Course of study for Open University of Israel. |
Other Publications
"Thinking aloud, talking, and learning to read: ESL reading comprehension training in small cooperative groups" (with Y. Bejarano), Ilha Dodesterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies, 38 (2000), pp.57-81.
Evaluation report: Development of an Online E Level English Course: A Pilot Study (with G. Shuster-Bouskila, C. Gordon), 2006.
Selected Papers at Scientific Conferences
| 2009 | “Language can open doors: Online self-study tools for crossing language barriers” (with I. Barth), EU ENPI Conference on Regional Capacity Building Initiative, Amman, Jordan. |
| 2009 | “From 'fishes' to fishing-rods: Open learning resources for acquisition of English academic vocabulary” (with I. Barth), Seventh Annual Conference of Israel Inter-University Computation Center (Meital), Tel Aviv. |
| 2008 | “The Impact of Affective Communications on Students' Perceptions and Performance in an Online University Course” (with C. Gordon and T. Persoff), SITE - the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Las Vegas, NV. |
| 2005 | “Accommodating the Needs of Low Level EFL Readers in On-line Instruction” (with N. Bousso), Association of Learning Technology Conference, Manchester. |
| 2000 | “Computer Mediated Communication for Distance Education: Developing and Teaching A Second Language Course,” International Educational Media Conference, Montreal, Canada. |
| 1999 | “A Second Language Course in Academic Reading via E-Mail,” UTELI Conference, University of Haifa. |
| 1986 | “Are Teacher Trainers Motivated to Teach Innovatively?,” The Second International Conference on Teacher Education: Stability, Evolution and Revolution, Wingate Institute. Israel. |
| 1990 | “Using Authentic Television Programmes for EFL Instruction,” Teacher Training Workshop, Educational Television of Israel. |
| 1989 | “Small Groups, Metacognition and ESL Methods,” TESOL Conference, Athens, Greece. |
| 1989 | “Are our Students Listening Without Thinking or Thinking Without Listening?,” SCRIPT Conference on Text Processing. Israel. |
| 1988 | “Learning a Second Language with Bill Cosby,” Educational Television Senior Team's Conference, Ministry of Education, Jerusalem. |