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Vardit Ringvald
ASAC 326
(781) 736-2979
ringvald@brandeis.edu
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Vardit Ringvald
Vardit Ringvald
Vardit Ringvald received her Ph.D. from Lesley University. She is the Director of the Hebrew language program and has been teaching at Brandeis University since 1985. Her presentations and publications deal with topics of competency-based curriculum for teaching Modern Hebrew in all educational settings. She is an expert in the application and proficiency approach to foreign language instruction at the different levels, developing authentic material, and methods for integrating culture into the classroom. Her recent interests include the development of bilingual courses as a method for strengthening skills across languages and the connection between language acquisition and identity formation.
She is a consultant to a variety of Hebrew language programs and is an oral proficiency interviewer trainer for the Hebrew Speaking Test developed by ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages). Prof. Ringvald served as the Chair of the SAT II for Hebrew. She is involved in national initiatives to advance the learning and teaching of Hebrew in America. She, along with her colleagues, published "Brandeis Modern Hebrew," which has become the standard college Hebrew textbook in America. In summer 2007 she established the Brandeis-Middlebury School of Hebrew at Middlebury College VT. She is also the Director and the Advisor for the MA in Hebrew teaching at Brandeis – a two year program that prepares students to become Hebrew teachers in all educational frameworks.
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