Bernstein Ze'ev (Wolf), Division of Foreign Languages

Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):

ZE'EV (Wolf) BERNSTEIN,

Ph.D., Professor Emeritus

Date and place of birth: October 2, 1924, Kaunas (Kowno),Lithuania.

*Education*

1.The Yacutsk Pedagogical University (Russia), 1947- 1952. MA in Slavonic linguistics (1952).

2. The Minsk Pedagogical University (Belarus), 1966- 1969. Ph.D. in applied Germanistics and Didactics (1969).Academic and Professional Experience.

1943-1959:elementary and secondary schools at Yacutsk (Russia): teacher of German.

1953-1959:the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Yacutsk branch: Senior lecturer of German.

1959-1965:the Altai Polytechnical University, Barnaul, (Russia): Senior lecturer of German,

1963-1965:the same Univertsity: assoc. professor and head of the department of foreign languages.

1965-1972:the Vilnius Pedagogical University and the Kaunas Polytechnical University (Lithuania): Senior lecturer of German,

1972-1988:the Division of Foreign Languages, Tel-Aviv University: Senior lecturer of German,

1988-1993:Associate Professor at the same Division,

from 1993:full Professor.

*Guest lectures*

1978 - Freiburg University, Germany,

1981 - Freiburg University, Germany,

1982 - Copenhagen University of Economics. Denmark,

1982 - Aarhus University of Economics, Denmark,

1985 - Augsburg University, Germany,

1987 - Goettingen University, Germany,

Bochum University, Germany,

Munich University, Germany,

1994 - King`s College, London,

Queen Mary and Westfield Colleges, London,

Technical University, Berlin.

Active Participation in Scientific Meetings.

1985 - 11-th International Conference on foreign language didactics. Ludwigsburg, Germany.

1987 - Symposium on Linguistics, University of Bochum, Germany.

1987 - Symposium on Linguistics, University of Goettingen, Germany,

1987 - Symposium on Teaching German as a foreign language. University of Munich and Goethe-Institute, Germany,

1991 - Seminar on Teching German in Israel, Goethe-Institute, Tel-Aviv.

Major publications (books and major articles):

*Books*

In all 21 books, including:

1.1956. German-Yacutian Comparative Grammar (Russian). Yacutsk (Russia).

2.1967. German Contrastive Phonetical Exercises (German, Lithuanian), Vilnius (Lithuania).

3.1969. Some problems of Teaching German on the Basis of Conscious Acquiring it (Russian). Minsk (Belorussia).

4.1974. German-Hebrew Dictionary of Linguistic Terminology. Tel-Aviv.

5.1979. German-Hebrew Dictionary. Tel-Aviv.

6.1983. German for Speakers of Hebrew. A Guide to Comprehensive Reading. (Hebrew). Tel Aviv.

7.1987. Texts and Exercises for Reading Comprehension (German). Tel-Aviv.

8.1990. Reading Comprehension as the Object of Teaching (German). Heidelberg (Germany).

9.1992. Pseudoparticiples in German Language Use (German). Heidelberg (Germany).

10.1992. Reading and Reading Comprehension. A Selected Bibliography for Teachers and Pupils (German), Bonn (Germany).

11.1997. The Use of the Definite Article in Hebrew (Hebrew and Russian). Tel-Aviv. (Accepted for publication).

*Chapters in Books*

1.1987. Some Considerations on the Structure of "passive" Dictionaries and their Role in Teaching Comprehensive Reading (German), in: L. Goetze (ed.), Deutsch als Fremdsprache - Situation eines Faches, pp. 213-223, Bonn
(Germany).

2.1987. The Identification of Comprehension Difficulties as a didactical Basis to overcome them (German), in: Materials and Abstracts of the 1-the International Conference on Foreign Language Didactics held in Ludwigsburg. Tuebingen (Germany).

*Edited book*

1992. Issues in Language Teaching (English and Hebrew). Tel-Aviv .

*Articles*

In all - 40 articles, including:

1.1968. Some lexical Difficulties in Acquiring German as a Foreign Language (Lithuanian). in: Tarybine Mokykla, vol. 6, pp.22-24 Vilnius (Lithuania).

2.1975. Comparison of Languages and Reference to the Mother Tongue in Teaching Foreign Languages (German). in: Zielsprache Deutsch vol. 3, pp. 17-24, Munich.

3.1978. Consciousness and Automation in Acquiring a Foreign Language (Hebrew), in: Hed Haulpan, vol. 21, Jerusalem.

4.1979. How does the Mother Tongue Interference manifest itself? (German), in: Linguistik und Didaktik, vol. 38, pp. 142-147,Munich

5.1981. Comprehensive Reading and Grammar Teaching (German), in: Lebende Sprachen, vol. 1, pp. 15-18, Munich.

6.1983. Ambiguity as an Obstacle to Text Comprehension. (German). in: Lebende Sprachen, vol. 4, pp. 149-153, Munich.

7.1983. Ambiguity as an Obstacle to Text Comprehension (German), in: Lebende Sprachen, vol. 4, pp. 149-153, Munich.

8.1984. Classification of Comprehension Difficulties and some Instructions to overcome them. (German). in: Zielsprache Deutsch, vol. 2, pp 10-20, Munich.

9.1984. Compound Words as a Comprehension Problem. (German). in:Sprache und Literatur, vol. 54, pp. 109-119, Munich.

10.1985. Phraseology as a Comprehension Problem (German). in: Lebende Sprachen, vol. 2, pp. 70-74, Munich .

11.1987. The Pseudo-Participles as a Translation and Comprehension Pproblem (German), in: Lebende Sprachen, vol. 2, pp. 79-87, Munich.

12.1986. Disambiguation, Differentiation and Comprehension Grammar in Teaching Reading Comprehension (German), in: Fragezeichen,vol.2, pp. 3-8, Varese (Italy).

13.1988. The Structure of Comprehension Grammar and its Role in Teaching Reading Comprehension (German), in: Zielsprache Deutsch, vol.3,pp. 2-10, Munich .

14.1991. Problems of Pronunciation by Immigrants from the USSR (Hebrew), in: Hed Haulpan, vol. 63, pp. 48-58, Jerusalem.

15.1992. Readability Research - its History, its Essence and some of its Results (Hebrew), in: Z. Bernstein (ed.), Issues in Language
Teaching pp. 51-67, Tel-Aviv.

Areas of current research interest:

1. Comparative grammar:
a) Rection of verbs (German-Russian, German-Hebrew).
b) Determinedness of nouns (Hebrew-Russian)
2. Expectancy Grammar in reading German scientific literature.