A. Ph.D. DISSERTATION
Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Context: Investigating Causes of
Difficulty for Israeli Students Reading Texts in English. English, 363
pages, 1984, supervised by Prof. Andrew Cohen and Prof. Edward Levenston.
ERIC ED 265 740.
B. ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
1. Applied Linguistics and Language Testing
Bensoussan, Marsha (1998) "Schema effects in EFL reading comprehension,"
Journal of Research in Reading, 21 (3), 213-227.
----- (1990) "Redundancy and the Cohesion Cloze," Journal of Research
in Reading, 13 (1), 18-37.
----- (1990) "EFL Reading Problems as Seen Through Translation and Discourse
Analysis: Narrative vs. Expository Texts," The ESP Journal (English
for Special Purposes), 9 (1), 49-66.
----- and Isabelle Kreindler (1990) "Improving Advanced Reading Comprehension
in a Foreign Language: Summaries vs. Short-Answer Questions," Journal
of Research in Reading, 13 (1), 55-68.
----- and Judith Rosenhouse (1990) "Evaluating Student Translations
by Discourse Analysis," Babel, 36 (2), 65-84.
----- and Moshe Zeidner (1989) "Anxiety and Achievement in a Multicultural
Situation: the Oral Testing of Advanced English Reading Comprehension,"
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 14 (1), 40-54.
----- and Moshe Zeidner (1988) "College Students' Attitudes Towards
Written Versus Oral Tests of English as a Foreign Language," Language
Testing, 5 (1), 100-114.
----- and Judith Rosenhouse (1987) "Discourse Analysis in Diagnosing
Difficulty in EFL Reading Comprehension," Journal of Multilingual and
Multicultural Development, 8 (4), 323-343.
----- (1986) "Beyond Vocabulary: Pragmatic Factors in Reading Comprehension
-- Culture, Convention, Coherence and Cohesion," Foreign Language Annals,
19 (5), 399-407.
----- (1984) "A Comparison of Cloze and Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension
Tests of English as a Foreign Language," Language Testing, 1 (1), 101-104.
For a complete version, see Report No. 57, 1981, University of Haifa
Selection and Assessment Unit.)
----- , Livia Goldenblatt, and Isabelle Kreindler (1984), "Changing
the Difficulty Level of Multiple-Choice EFL Reading Comprehension Questions,"
Language Testing, 1 (1), 105-109.
----- and Rachel Ramraz (1984) "Testing EFL Reading Comprehension Using
a Multiple-Choice Rational Cloze," Modern Language Journal, 68 (3),
230-239.
----- and Batia Laufer (1984) "Lexical Guessing in Context in EFL Reading
Comprehension," Journal of Research in Reading, 7 (1), 15-32.
----- (1983) "Multiple-Choice Modifications of the Cloze Procedure Using
Word-Length and Sentence-Length Blanks," Foreign Language Annals, 16
(3), 189-198.
----- (1982) "Testing the Test of Advanced EFL Reading Comprehension:
To What Extent Does the Difficulty of a Multiple-Choice Test Reflect
the Difficulty of the Text?", System, 10 (3), 285-290.
2. Multilingualism and Sociolinguistics
Bensoussan, Marsha, Isabelle Kreindler, and Eleanor Avinor (1995) "A
Description of Attitudes and Achievements of Multilingual Immigrant
and Israeli Students Learning English as a Foreign Language at the University
of Haifa," Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1 (2), 211-230.
----- with Isabelle Kreindler, Eleanor Avinor, and Chen Bram (1995)
"Circassian Israelis: Multilingualism as a Way of Life," Language, Culture
and Curriculum, 1 (2), 149-162.
3. Evaluation of Language Program and Policy
Bensoussan, Marsha, Donald Sim and Razelle Weiss (1985) "The Effect
of Dictionary Usage on EFL Test Performance Compared With Student and
Teacher Attitudes and Expectations," Reading in a Foreign Language,
2 (2), 262-276. (For complete version, see ERIC ED 232 436, 1981, 46
pp.)
----- and Rachel Ramraz (1984) "Helping the Poor to Help Themselves:
A Quantitative Re-evaluation of the Outcomes of an Advanced Reading
Comprehension Program in English as a Foreign Language," System, 12
(1), 61-66.
----- (1983) "Dictionaries and Tests of EFL Reading Comprehension,"
ELT Journal, 37 (4), 341-345.
Nevo, Baruch, Donald Sim, and Marsha Bensoussan (1977) "The Rich Get
Richer and the Poor Get Poorer: A Quantitative Evaluation of the Outcomes
of a Program for Teaching English as a Foreign Language," System, 5
(1), 33-37.
C. ARTICLES OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS WHICH ARE NOT
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
1. Applied Linguistics and Language Testing
----- (1993) "A Guided Summary Completion Test for Long Academic Texts,"
Language Testing Update, 14, 59-61. Also ERIC ED 363 094, 29 pp.
----- (1992), "Information Sequencing and Text Readability for Advanced
Students of English as a Foreign Language," in Ze'ev Bernstein (Ed.)
Issues in Language Teaching. Tel Aviv: Ramot. Pp. 25-45.
----- (1992), "Learners' Spontaneous Translations in a Reading Comprehension
Task: Vocabulary Knowledge and Use of Schemata," in Pierre Arnaud and
Henri Bejoint (Eds.) Vocabulary and Applied Linguistics, New York: Macmillan.
Pp. 102-112.
----- (1988) "Diagnosing Errors in English as a Foreign Language Through
the Cloze Procedure," English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 37, 21-26.
----- (1987) "Some Aspects of Reading Comprehension Difficulty for Students
of English as a Foreign Language," Iun Vemaas, Gordon Teachers' College,
Ministry of Education. Pp. 235-242.
----- (1985) "Using Translation from L2 to L1 to Diagnose Difficulties
in Reading Comprehension" in Marilyn Rose (Ed.) Translation Perspectives
II 1984-1985. SUNY -- Binghamton. Pp. 45-53.
----- and Rachel Ramraz (1984) "The Fill-in Test: A Modified Multiple-Choice
Cloze Technique to Test Reading Comprehension of English as a Foreign
Language," in Terry Culhane, Christine Klein-Braley, and Douglas Stevenson
(Eds.) Occasional Papers: Practice and Problems in Language Testing.
No. 29. Colchester, England: University of Essex, 44 - 65.
Laufer, Batia and Marsha Bensoussan (1982) "Meaning Is in the Eye of
the Beholder," English Teaching Forum, 20 (2), 10-13.
Sim, Donald and Marsha Bensoussan (1979) "Control of Contextualized
Function and Content Words as It Affects English as a Foreign Language
Reading Comprehension Test Scores," in R. Mackay, B. Barkman, and R.R.
Jordan (Eds.), Reading in a Second Language, Rowley, Mass.: Newbury
House. Pp. 36-44.
3. Multilingualism and Sociolinguistics
----- (in press) "Language Issues for Immigrant Students from the Former
Soviet Union in Israel and Germany." Trilingualism, Tertiary Languages
and Multilingualism. Tuebingen, Germany: Stauffengurg.
----- , Isabelle Kreindler, and Eleanor Avinor (1997) "Gishot V'Hesegim
shel Studentim Israelim V'Olim B'Limud Anglit," (Approaches and Achievements
of Israeli and Immigrant Students Learning English) Hed HaUlpan HaHadash
LeHanchalat HaIvrit V'Tarbuta, 73. Misrad HaChinuch HaTarbut V'Hasifrut,
HaAgaf L'Chinuch Mvugarim (Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport,
Division of Adult Education): Jerusalem. Pp. 17-20.
Awad, Wajee and Marsha Bensoussan (1996) "Report on Students' Use of
Languages at the Arab Teacher Training College, Haifa," TRENDS: The
Yearbook of CONTACT (The Association of Teacher Educators for TEFL in
Israel) 5, 45-50.
----- , Eleanor Avinor, Isabelle Kreindler, and Arkady Purisman (1992),
"A Tri-Lingual Situation: Russian Immigrants at Israeli Universities,"
English Teachers' Journal (Israel) 45, 68-74.
----- (1986) "A Sociolinguistic Look at Hebrew-Speakers Learning to
Read English," Jewish Language Review 6, 52-64.
4. Teaching Methods and Materials
----- (1998) "EFL and the Dyslexic College Student: Remedial Materials
in the Language Laboratory." In J.C. Richards (Ed.) Teaching in Action:
Case studies from second language classroom. Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
Pp. 395-9.
----- and Jonathan Golan (1985) "An Advanced English Course for Students
of Mathematics," in J.M. Ulijn and A.K. Pugh (Eds.) Reading for Professional
Purposes: Methods and Materials in Teaching Languages. Leuven, Belgium:
Acco. Pp. 185-194.
D. ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
----- , Isabelle Kreindler, and Eleanor Avinor (1998) "Attitudes to
Language Learning -- Multilingual Students of Haifa University," Tertiaersprachen:
Theorien, Modelle, Methoden. Stauffenburg, Tuebingen. Pp. 59-75.
----- and Naila Abu-Manneh (1997) "A Pilot Porgram for EFL Reading Comprehension,"
ISRATESOL Newsletter 14, 7-9.
----- (1989) "EFL Reading Difficulties Revealed by Translation and Discourse
Analysis: Narrative vs. Expository Texts," in Christer Lauren and Marianne
Nordman (Eds.) Special Language: From Humans Thinking to Thinking Machines.
Clevedon and Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 324-336.
E. OTHER SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
----- (1998) "Review of the Hebrew Speaking Test." In James Impara and
Barbara Plake (Eds.) The Thirteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook. Pp.
480-482.
----- , Eleanor Avinor, Sonya Danziger, Kari Smith, Olga Bogdanov, Marian
Bunzl, Johanna Katzenelson, Joyce Livingstone, Lilian Cohen, and Ruth
Auerbach (1994) English as a Foreign Language and the Dyslexic College
Student: Pilot Screen Test and Remedial Materials in the Language Laboratory.
ERIC ED 377 686, 31 pp.
----- (1990) Review of Newbury House TOEFL Preparation Kit: Preparing
for the TOEFL. Daniel Kennedy, Dorry Kenyon, and Steven Matthiesen.
New York: Newbury House/Harper & Row, 1989. and Newbury House TOEFL
Preparation Kit: Preparing for the Test of Written English. Liz Hamp-Lyons.
New York: Newbury House/Harper & Row, 1989. In TESOL Quarterly, 24 (3),
501-506.
----- and Anna Mauranen (1989) "SeDelGap Tests of Macro-Level Reading
Comprehension: An Exercise in International Collaboration," ERIC ED
309 644, 25 pp.
F. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
----- (1986) "Limitations of Vocabulary Frequency Lists in EFL Reading
Comprehension," Applied Linguistics Interest Section Newsletter, 8 (1),
11-12.
Internal Reports, University of Haifa
----- , Gita Kornfeld, Eleanor Avinor, Barbara Golan, Livia Goldenblatt,
Isabelle Kreindler (1983) "English Section of the University of Haifa
Psychometric Entrance Examination (EEE): 1972-1983," Report No. 69,
University Selection and Assessment Unit.
----- and Rachel Ramraz (1981) "THE FILL-IN TEST: Combining Multiple-Choice
and Modified Cloze Techniques to Test Reading Comprehension," Report
No. 52, University of Haifa Selection and Assessment Unit. Revised 1982,
Report No. 64. See ERIC ED 227 652, 1983, 68 pp.
----- (1979) "Manual for Teachers Preparing Examinations in EFL for
Analysis by Computer," Report No. 44, University of Haifa Selection
and Assessment Unit.
