Doctoral Students Supervised
School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv.
1. Liliana Tolchinsky-Landsmann:
The development of the written language in kindergartners and first graders. 1986.
2. Sara Druyan:
The effect of socio-cognitive transaction on reasoning in physics:
The conception of speed. 1990.
3. Yoram Dembo:
Development, schooling and training effects on misconception in geometry. 1994.
4. Ruth Ezrati:
Time estimation of communication contexts in stutterers as a function of stuttering severity and stress. 1997.
5. Drorit Ben Yitzhak:
Spontaneous play in hearing-impaired infants: A developmental analysis. 1998.
6. Esther Adi-Japha:
Dynamics and representation in drawings of 2-3 year olds
Brain Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
(in collaboration with S. Solomon, Rocach Institute of Physics). 1998.
7. Ofra Korat:
Mother-child interaction maternal beliefs and child development: Text writing in two social groups. 1998.
8. Dorit Aram:
Mothers of kindergartners teach their children to write: Analysis in a developmental town of SES, mother's literacy, literate environement, maternal mediation and child's literacy. 1998.
Masters Degree Students Supervised
(since 1998)
School of Education
Letter names bridge the gap between speech and print in Israeli kindergartners.
Morphological knowledge of root letters and letter names and their contribution to acquisition of spelling in first graders.
Letter names’ affect on early word recognition in Israeli kindergartners.
The relations between emergent literacy skills and background factors in K and oral reading in G2, among low SES children. (in collaboration with Dorit Aram).
Parental sensitivity to children's emergent writing skills: A study among low SES mother-kindergartner dyads (in collaboration with Dorit Aram).
Letter names and letter sounds as a bridge to emergent literacy: A training study with preschoolers and kindergartners.
School of Communication Disorders
The construction of spoken and written morphology in kindergarten:
The case of the voweling system (In collaboration with Dorit Ravid).
The acquisition of written and spoken language in ultra-orthodox and mainstream preschoolers. (In collaboration with Dorit Ravid)