Zev bar-Lev

Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages

San Diego State University, San Diego CA 92182-0299

e-mail:zev.bar-Lev@sdsu.edu | website: www.languagebazaar.com

 

EDUCATION

AB, Columbia College, 1963 (cum laude): Russian Literature;           
MA, Cornell U., 1965 (NDEA Fellowship): Slavic Linguistics
PhD, Indiana U., 1969 (NDEA Fellowship): General, Slavic, & Mathematical Ling.


TEACHING POSITIONS

1979-pres.: Lecturer to Professor, San Diego State University (Theoretical and Applied Linguistics; Hebrew)
1972-78: Lecturer, Ben Gurion University, Israel (English Linguistics)
1969-73: Assistant Professor, Syracuse University (Mathematical Linguistics and Second Lang. Acquisition)

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

1967-68: Fulbright Fellow: Moscow Univ. & Inst. for Oriental Languages
1978-79: Visiting Scholar, UCLA and USC (Theoret. & Applied Linguistics)
1990-present:  Language Acquisition Resource Center, SDSU: grant for research on teaching Less Commonly Taught langs.
Consultant for U.S. Army at Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, October 1987 and January 1988
Consultant on Hebrew for San Diego Public Schools, 1990; Member of College Board for Hebrew SAT, for ETS, Princeton, since 1994—1996; grant, Consortial Judaic Studies & Strategic Language Initiative of CSU, 2000.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. ‘Subject & Predicate in Underlying Syntactic Structure’, GLOSSA 2:2, pp. 164-174 (1968)
  2. ‘Semantic Metaconditions & the Syncategorematicity of “Good”‘, GLOSSA 6:2, pp. 180-202 (1972)
  3. ‘Reply to Zaitchik’s Critique [of 3]’, GLOSSA 9:1, pp. 114-117 (1975)
  4. ‘Review: Jackendoff SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION IN GENERATIVE GRAMMAR’, PHILO. 5:4, pp. 561-569 (1975)
  5. ‘Presupposition as a Semantic Constituent’, GLOSSA 9:2, pp. 123-138 (1975)
  6. ‘Migbalot al Tnuot Pnimiyot’ [‘Restrictions on Internal Vowels’], HEBREW COMPUT. LINGUISTICS #12, pp. 1-4 (1977)
  7. ‘Spatial Relations’, FOLIA LINGUISTICA X-3/4, pp. 263-276 (1977)
  8. ‘The Hebrew Morpheme’, LINGUA 45, pp. 319-331 (1978)
  9. ‘Natural-Abstract Hebrew Phonology’, FOLIA LINGUISTICA XI-3/4, pp. 259-272 (1978)
  10. ‘Ordering of Hebrew Morphological Processes’ AFROASIATIC LINGUISTICS 6:1, pp. 15-22 (1978)
  11. ‘Hebrew Intramorphemics’, LINGUISTICS 211, pp. 57-68 (1978)
  12. ‘A Functional Solution to Russian Scrambling’, PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS  12:3-4,  (1979);
  13. reprinted at their request in: INTNTL REV OF SLAVIC LINGUISTICS 4:3, pp. 393-417 (1979)
  14. ‘Semantic Command over Pragmatic Priority’ (with A. Palacas), LINGUA 51, PP. 467-490 (1980)
  15. ‘The Logic of Interdigitation’, PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS, pp. 77-86 (1982)
  16. ‘An Inductive-within-Deductive Approach for the Intro. Linguistics Course’, INNOVS. IN LING. ED. 3:1, pp. 1-11 (1983)
  17. ‘Hebrew Hieroglyphics’, VISIBLE LANGUAGE XVII, pp. 365-379 (1983)
  18. ‘Hyposet Logic’, FOLIA LINGUISTICA XVIII, pp. 469-484 (1984)
  19. ‘Towards Superlogic’, I.T.L. REVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS 64, pp. 23-55 (1984)
  20. ‘Arabic Ungrammar’, TEACHING LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE XXIII, pp.3-15 (1984)
  21. ‘Meaning Machine’, INNOVATIONS IN LINGUISTIC EDUCATION 4.1, pp. 1-55 (1985)
  22. ‘Discourse Theory and Contrastive Rhetoric’, DISCOURSE PROCESSES 9-2 (1986)
  23. COMPUTER TALK FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS, Prentice-Hall, 228 pp. (1987)
  24. ‘Shitat haGlifim beHoraat Ivrit’ [‘The Glyph System for Teaching Hebrew’], HED HA’ULPAN, 59 , pp. 57-60, (Spring 1989)
  25. ‘Glyphs’, BULLETIN OF HIGHER HEBREW EDUCATION, vol.2, #4 (Fall 1989)
  26. ‘Glyphs: A Shortcut to Reading Hebrew’, PEDAGOGIC REPORTER, v.40, #4, (4/90)
  27. ‘Pre-Hebrew’, BULLETIN OF HIGHER HEBREW EDUCATION, vol.4, #2 (Spring 1991)
  28. ‘Glifim beHoraat Aravit’ [‘Glyphs in Teaching Arabic’, BITA’ON LAMORE LE’ARAVIT, #9 (1991)
  29. ‘Innovations for the “Other” Teacher’, SHOFAR, 9:3, 1991
  30. ‘Two Innovations for Teaching Tones’, JRNL. OF CHINESE LANG. TEACHERS ASSOC., 10/91
  31. ‘Two Innovations for Teaching Arabic’, JRNL. OF ARAB. LANG. TEACHERS ASSOC., 24, 1991
  32. ‘Sheltered-Initiation Language Learning’, APPLIED LANGUAGE LEARNING vol.4 #1-2, 1993.
  33. ‘An Unnatural Approach’, MID-ATLANTIC JOURNAL of foreign-language pedagogy, vol.2, 1994.
  34. introduction: STATEMENT OF COMPETENCIES IN LANGUAGES, PHASE II: JAPANESE, MANDARIN CHINESE, RUSSIAN. Academic Senates of California, 1994.
  35. ‘Spontaneity in Elementary Arabic’, el-Batal (ed),  TEACHING ARABIC AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, AATA, 1995.
  36. ‘Teaching Speaking in Celtic Languages’, JNL OF CELTIC LANG. TEACHING, vol.1, 1995.
  37. ‘Kak Nauchit’ Rechi v Russkom Yazyke’ [‘How to Teach Speaking in Russian’], ATSEEL NEWSLETTER, 11/95.
  38. ‘Acquisition Theory and Usable Hebrew’, SHOFAR, vol.14, #4, 1996.
  39. ‘A “SILL-y” Approach to Teachings SEA Lgs (Indonesian, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese)’, SEA Lang. Jrnl, Dec. 1996.
  40. “Beyond Proficiency in a Japanese Mini-Course”, Yuki Johnson (ed.), PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH LAKE ERIE TEACHERS OF JAPANESE CONFERENCE, U. Michigan, 1997.
  41. ‘Key-Letters and the Invention of the Alphabet, Glyph, March 1999.
  42. Hebrew Free Speech,  LARC Press, SDSU, 2000.
  43. ‘Methodological Innovation & Mechanical Media’, in Saito-Abbott et al. (ed.). Emerging Technologies n Teaching Languages & Cultures, CSU, Monterey Bay, 2000.
  44. FREE SPEECH: FOREIGN LANGUAGE MINI-COURSES published by LARC Press.
  45. SHUSH AND SAY “SIX”, LARC Press, 2001.
  46. ‘Water-Way: Asymmetric Teaching of Tones in Mandarin’, in: Wenchao He (ed.) International Research on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Nanjing, July 2002.
  47. ‘A Heretical Method for Teaching Foreign Languages’, Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, vol.7, #1, U. Texas, 2002.
  48. ‘Hebrew Key-Letters’, SHOFAR, Summer 2003.
  49. ‘gishah qitsonit lehoraat ivrit behhuts laarets’ [‘A Radical Approach to Teaching Hebrew Outside of Israel’],  Hed Ha'Ulpan HeHhadash, #86, May 2003.
  50. ‘otiyot mafteahh be’ivrit’ [‘Key-Letters in Hebrew’], HADOAR VOL. 82, #4, 2003.
  51.  ‘A Kabbalistic Theory of Theories’,  Noetic Journal, vol.4,  no.4, 2003.
  52.  ‘A Mystic World-View’, International Journal of the Humanities,  Volume 1, 2003.
  53.  ‘Innovations for Teaching Hebrew & Arabic’, CALICO JRNL. 21:3, 2004.
  54.  ‘Kabbalah & Hebrew Key-Letters’, BULLET. HEBR. HIGHER  ED., 2004.
  55.  ‘Why Jake Doesn’t Know Hebrew’, Jewish Educational Leadership (Lookstein Center Publications), Fall 2005, available @: www.lookstein.org/online_journal.php?id=81.
  56. ‘shorshé hashorashim’ [‘Roots of Roots’], HED HAULPAN HEHHADASH #90. 
  57.  with Queenie Chaturonkagul, ‘An Innovative Approach to Thai’, forthcoming in South-East Asian Languages Journal.
  58. ‘Arabic Key-Consonants’ Journal of Arabic & Islamic Studies, vol. VI, 2005-06.   (See also nacal.org for NACAL 2004.)
  59.  ‘Mrs. Goldberg’s Rebuttal of Butt et al.’, DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY, 18:2, 2007.
  60. ‘Reframing Moral Politics’, in LANGUAGE & POLITICS, 6:3, 2007.
  61. Hebrew Series (3 semesters for college), available from UniversityReaders.com.
  62. Hebrew Today (8 years) for supplementary schools), available from UniversityReaders.com.
  63. Hebrew MagicLetters, available from UniversityReaders.com, 2011-2012.
  64. “Defending G-d,” Be’or haTorah.22, 1992.
  65. A Kabbalistic Theory of Theories’,  Noetic Journal, vol.4,  no.4, 2003.
  66.  ‘A Mystic World-View’, International Journal of the Humanities, Volume 1, 2003.
  67.  ‘Innovations for Teaching Hebrew & Arabic’, CALICO JRNL. 21:3, 2004.
  68.  “Structures and Strategies in L2 Reading Comprehension, (the onomat)” AIJSS 4:2, 2013.
  69. :Learning Hebrew via the Global Alphabet,” Intntnl Journal of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, 3:5, June 2014.
  70. Three Decades of SILLyness,” ntntnl Journal of Education & Social Science, 2:10, October 2016.
  71. “Global Safari,” Amer. Intntnl Jrnl of Humanities & Social Sciences 2:1, 2016.
  72. Tune Up Your Brain with the Global Alphabet, Cognella Academic Press, 2016.
  73. ‘”Semantuc Keys and Reading,” MACROLINGUIsTICS., issue 4, 2016.


MAIN CITATIONS

  1. Brown-Azarowicz et al. YES! YOU CAN LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, Passport: National Textbook Co., 1986
  2. Col. Wesley Groesbeck, ‘Our Burgeoning Linguistic Gap’, ARMY Magazine, Dec.1988
  3. Celce-Murcia, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, Newbury, 2nd ed., 1991
  4. Contee Seely & Elizabeth Romijn, T.P.R. is More Than Commands,Command Performance Language Instit., 1995
  5. George Ptasinski, “A New Approach to Promoting Catalonian in the US”, First Intrntnl Symposium on Ibero-Romance Lang. , San José April 1996
  6. Han Lina,  “The Application of SILL Methodology” [in Chinese], Journal of Normal  Bethune University of Medical Sciences, vol. 2, 1996.
  7. Han Lina & Guan Lijuan,  “The Application of SILL Methodology for Teaching Listening and Speaking in English” [in Chinese], MEDIA IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION, vol. 1, 1997.
  8. Power-glide Language Courses (http://www.power-glide.com).
  9. Blain Ray & Contee Seely, FLUENCY THROUGH T.P.R. STORYTELLING, Command Performance Language Institute, 1997, 1998.
  10. Smith, Scott, 2000.  “Say What?” in: Hemisphere: United Airlines Magazine.
  11. Trewhella, Jessica, 2002. “A radical approach.” Waves of the Future, November 22-24, Shizuoka, Japan.
  12. Story, Joyce. 2004.  “Confident, Continuous, and Creative Speaking: SILL & the Beginning Foreign Language student.”  Arizona Language Association Annual Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona, October.
  13. “Best in Hebrew Education” in the SD Jewish Journal, April 2013, p.30 (Hebrew Today at Ner Tamid Hebrew school.

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