Zev bar-Lev

Department of Linguistics & Oriental Languages,

San Diego State University, San Diego CA 92182-0299

e-mail:zev.bar-Lev@sdsu.edu ; fax 619-594-4877;

web-site: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/linguist/zevbar-lev.html

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, 1994–1996;
grant, Consortial Judaic Studies & Strategic Language Initiative of CSU, 2000

PUBLICATIONS
‘Subject & Predicate in Underlying Syntactic Structure’, GLOSSA 2:2, pp. 164-174 (1968)
‘Semantic Metaconditions & the Syncategorematicity of "Good"‘, GLOSSA 6:2, pp. 180-202 (1972)
‘Reply to Zaitchik’s Critique [of 3]’, GLOSSA 9:1, pp. 114-117 (1975)
‘Review: Jackendoff SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION IN GENERATIVE GRAMMAR’, PHILO. 5:4, pp. 561-569 (1975)
‘Presupposition as a Semantic Constituent’, GLOSSA 9:2, pp. 123-138 (1975)
‘Migbalot al Tnuot Pnimiyot’ [‘Restrictions on Internal Vowels’], HEBREW COMPUT. LINGUISTICS #12, pp. 1-4 (1977)
‘Spatial Relations’, FOLIA LINGUISTICA X-3/4, pp. 263-276 (1977)
‘The Hebrew Morpheme’, LINGUA 45, pp. 319-331 (1978)
‘Natural-Abstract Hebrew Phonology’, FOLIA LINGUISTICA XI-3/4, pp. 259-272 (1978)
‘Ordering of Hebrew Morphological Processes’ AFROASIATIC LINGUISTICS 6:1, pp. 15-22 (1978)
‘Hebrew Intramorphemics’, LINGUISTICS 211, pp. 57-68 (1978)
‘A Functional Solution to Russian Scrambling’, PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS 12:3-4, (1979);
reprinted at their request in: INTNTL REV OF SLAVIC LINGUISTICS 4:3, pp. 393-417 (1979)
‘Semantic Command over Pragmatic Priority’ (with A. Palacas), LINGUA 51, PP. 467-490 (1980)
‘The Logic of Interdigitation’, PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS, pp. 77-86 (1982)
‘An Inductive-within-Deductive Approach for the Intro. Linguistics Course’, INNOVS. IN LING. ED. 3:1, pp. 1-11 (1983)
‘Hebrew Hieroglyphics’, VISIBLE LANGUAGE XVII, pp. 365-379 (1983)
‘Hyposet Logic’, FOLIA LINGUISTICA XVIII, pp. 469-484 (1984)
‘Towards Superlogic’, I.T.L. REVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS 64, pp. 23-55 (1984)
‘Arabic Ungrammar’, TEACHING LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE XXIII, pp.3-15 (1984)
‘Meaning Machine’, INNOVATIONS IN LINGUISTIC EDUCATION 4.1, pp. 1-55 (1985)
‘Discourse Theory and Contrastive Rhetoric’, DISCOURSE PROCESSES 9-2 (1986)
COMPUTER TALK FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS, Prentice-Hall, 228 pp. (1987)
‘Shitat haGlifim beHoraat Ivrit’ [‘The Glyph System for Teaching Hebrew’], HED HA’ULPAN, 59 , pp. 57-60, (Spring 1989)
‘Glyphs’, BULLETIN OF HIGHER HEBREW EDUCATION, vol.2, #4 (Fall 1989)
‘Glyphs: A Shortcut to Reading Hebrew’, PEDAGOGIC REPORTER, v.40, #4, (4/90)
‘Pre-Hebrew’, BULLETIN OF HIGHER HEBREW EDUCATION, vol.4, #2 (Spring 1991)
‘Glifim beHoraat Aravit’ [‘Glyphs in Teaching Arabic’, BITA’ON LAMORE LE’ARAVIT, #9 (1991)
‘Innovations for the "Other" Teacher’, SHOFAR, 9:3, 1991
‘Two Innovations for Teaching Tones’, JRNL. OF CHINESE LANG. TEACHERS ASSOC., 10/91
‘Two Innovations for Teaching Arabic’, JRNL. OF ARAB. LANG. TEACHERS ASSOC., 24, 1991
‘Sheltered-Initiation Language Learning’, APPLIED LANGUAGE LEARNING vol.4 #1-2, 1993.
‘An Unnatural Approach’, MID-ATLANTIC JOURNAL of foreign-language pedagogy, vol.2, 1994.
introduction: STATEMENT OF COMPETENCIES IN LANGUAGES, PHASE II: JAPANESE, MANDARIN CHINESE, RUSSIAN. Academic Senates of California, 1994.
‘Spontaneity in Elementary Arabic’, el-Batal (ed), TEACHING ARABIC AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, AATA, 1995.
‘Teaching Speaking in Celtic Languages’, JNL OF CELTIC LANG. TEACHING, vol.1, 1995.
‘Kak Nauchit’ Rechi v Russkom Yazyke’ [‘How to Teach Speaking in Russian’], ATSEEL NEWSLETTER, 11/95.
‘Acquisition Theory and Usable Hebrew’, SHOFAR, vol.14, #4, 1996.
‘A "SILL-y" Approach to Teachings SEA Lgs (Indonesian, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese)’, SEA Lang. Jrnl, Dec. 1996
"Beyond Proficiency in a Japanese Mini-Course", Yuki Johnson (ed.), PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH LAKE ERIE TEACHERS OF JAPANESE CONFERENCE, U. Michigan, 1997.
‘Key-Letters and the Invention of the Alphabet, GLYPH, March 1999.
HEBREW FREE SPEECH, LARC Press, SDSU, 2000.
‘Methodological Innovation & Mechanical Media’, in Saito-Abbott et al. (ed.). EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES N TEACHING LANGUAGES & CULTURES, CSU, Monterey Bay, 2000.
FREE SPEECH: FOREIGN LANGUAGE MINI-COURSES published by LARC Press.
SHUSH AND SAY "SIX", LARC Press, 2001.
‘Water-Way: Asymmetric Teaching of Tones in Mandarin’, PROCEEDINGS OF THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON TEACHING CHINESE. Nanjing, July 2002.
‘A Heretical Method for Teaching Foreign Languages’, INNOVATIONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION, U. Texas, 2002.

‘Hebrew Key-Letters’, SHOFAR, Summer 2003.

‘gishah qitsonit lehoraat ivrit behhuts laarets’ [‘A Radical Approach to Teaching Hebrew Outside of Israel’], Hed Ha'Ulpan HeHhadash, #86, May 2003.

‘otiyot mafteahh be’ivrit’ [‘Key-Letters in Hebrew’], HADOAR VOL. 82, #4, 2003.

‘A Kabbalistic Theory of Theories’, Noetic Journal, vol.4, no.4, 2003.

‘A Mystic World-View’, International Journal of the Humanities, Volume 1, 2003.

‘Innovations for Teaching Hebrew & Arabic’, CALICO JRNL. 21:3, 2004.

‘Kabbalah & Hebrew Key-Letters’, BULLET. HEBR. HIGHER ED., 2004.

‘Why Jake Doesn’t Know Hebrew’, Jewish Educational Leadership (Lookstein Center Publications), Fall 2005, available @: www.lookstein.org/online_journal.php?id=81.

‘shorshé hashorashim’ [‘Roots of Roots’], HED HAULPAN HEHHADASH #90.

with Queenie Chaturonkagul, ‘An Innovative Approach to Thai’, forthcoming in South-East Asian Languages Journal.

‘Arabic Key-Consonants’ forthcoming in Journal of Arabic & Islamic Studies. (See also nacal.org for NACAL 2004.)

‘Mrs. Goldberg’s Rebuttal of Butt et al.’, forthcoming in DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY. 10.

MAIN CITATIONS
Brown-Azarowicz et al. YES! YOU CAN LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, Passport: National Textbook Co., 1986
Col. Wesley Groesbeck, ‘Our Burgeoning Linguistic Gap’, ARMY Magazine, Dec.1988
Celce-Murcia, TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE, Newbury, 2nd ed., 1991
Contee Seely & Elizabeth Romijn, T.P.R. IS MORE THAN COMMANDS, Command Performance Language Instit., 1995
George Ptasinski, "A New Approach to Promoting Catalonian in the US", FIRST INTRNTNL SYMPOSIUM ON IBERO-ROMANCE LANG. , San José April 1996
Han Lina, "The Application of SILL Methodology" [in Chinese], JOURNAL OF NORMAL BETHUNE UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, vol. 2, 1996.
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.
POWER-GLIDE LANGUAGE COURSES (http://www.power-glide.com).
Blain Ray & Contee Seely, FLUENCY THROUGH T.P.R. STORYTELLING, Command Performance Language Institute, 1997, 1998.
Smith, Scott, 2000. "Say What?" in: HEMISPHERE: UNITED AIRLINES MAGAZINE.

CONFERENCE PAPERS & WORKSHOPS
‘The Question of Order in Semantic Structure’, SECOL (South-Eastern Conference on Linguistics, Atlanta, 1970)
‘Presupposition & Analyticity’ University Teaachers of English, Jerusalem, 1973
‘Semitic Interdigitation’ LSA (Linguistic Society of America), Illinois, 1978
‘Semantic Command over Pragmatic Priority’ (w.A. Palacas) LSA (Linguistic Society of America), Boston, 1978
‘A Functional Solution to Russian Scrambling’ LSA (Linguistic Society of America), Boston, 1978
‘Ungrammar’, Second Language Research Forum, Los Angeles, 1980
‘Five Fallacies in Grammatical Explanation’, CATESOL, San Diego, 1980
Workshop in Cognitive Code Methodology, CATESOL, San Diego, 1980
‘Exolexia’, CLAC (California Linguistic Association Conference), Long Beach, 1980
‘The Whorfian WFF of Language’, LSA (Linguistic Society of America), San Antonio, 1980
‘Tralfamadorian Phonology’, NYSCOL (New York State Conference on Linguistics), Stony Brook, 1981
‘Discourse Theory and Contrastive Rhetoric’, SLRF (Second Language Research Forum), Los Angeles, 1983
‘Computer Literacy and Programming Language’, Microcomputers in Education, Tempe, 1984
‘Hebrew Hieroglyphics’, Mini-CAJE (Coalation on Alternatives in Jewish Education), San Diego, 1986
‘Hebrew Hieroglyphics’, NACAL (North American Conf. on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics), March 1987
‘Language, Culture and Composition’ & ‘Designer Languages’, Colorado State University (by invitation), March 1987
‘Designer Languages’, CFLTA (California Foreign Language Teachers Association), April 1987
‘Designer Languages’, Deseret Conference, Provo, March 1988
‘Designer Languages’ Workshop, CFLTA (California Foreign Language Teachers Association), April 1988
‘Two Innovations in Hebrew Teaching’; short courses: Hebrew speaking & reading, CAJE, July 1988
‘Grammar Sequencing in Foreign Language Pre-courses’, CATESOL Annual Conference, November 1988
‘Read Hebrew in One Hour’ presented in Adult Ed. project of Agency for Jewish Ed., San Diego, December 1988
‘Grammar Sequencing in Foreign Language Pre-courses’, CFLTA, April 1989
‘Shitat haGlifim’ [‘The Glyph System’], Pre-Congress on Teaching Hebrew, Zionist Congress, Jerusalem Aug.1989
‘Teaching Spontaneity’, CATESOL, Palomar College, October 1990
‘Teaching Speaking in Mini-Courses’, Mini-CAJE, Feb. 10, 1991
‘Foreign Language Mini-Courses’ Teaching & Learning Exchange, Cal. State U. System-wide Conference, LA, 2/92
"Skim-Reading, Skim-Listening, & Spontaneous Conv. in Elem. Arabic" Teaching Arabic in the 90’s, Middlebury, 6/92
‘Teaching the Alphabet with Glyphs (Hebrew & Arabic)’, CAJE, August 1992
‘Creativity & Spontaneity in Elementary Foreign Language’, U. Kansas, September 1992
‘Skim-Reading and "Skim-Listening" in Elementary Foreign Language, ACTFL Annual Conf., Nov. 1992
‘Sheltered-Initiation Language Learning Workshop’, CFLTA (Calif.Foreign Lang. Tachers Association), April 1993
‘Sheltered-Initiation Language Learning’, Nat’n’l Public Radio, 8/16/93, 10-11:00am & 9-10:00pm
‘SILL: A "Heretical" Method for Teaching Foreign Language’, Conf. on FLT, U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 1993
‘So Many Languages, So Little Time’, Conf. on Foreign Lang. Teaching, ALL Conf., Kansas City, Missouri, 1993
‘Sheltered Initiation Language Learning’, SCOLT (Southern Conf. on Lang. Teaching), Atlanta Feb. 1994
‘Semitic Safari’, Lipinsky Institute Lecture, October 1994
‘Teaching Creative Speaking in the First 15 Hours’, Am.Assoc. of Teachers of Slav. & EEur.Langs., Dec. 1994.
‘A Heretical Method for Teaching Speaking’ (half-day workshop), Joint Central State Conf. on TFL, Denver, 3/95
‘Celtic Mini-Courses’, National Association of Teachers of Celtic Languages, Glendale, March 1995.
‘Beyond Proficency: Teaching Creativity & Spontaneity in Hebrew’, Lipinsky Institute Symposium, March 1995.
‘An Asymmetric Approach to the Tones of Vietnamese & Thai’, Conf. on SEA Languages, Madison, Wisc., July 1995
‘When There’s no Time for Immersion’, ALL (Advocates for Language Learning) Conference, Anaheim CA, April 1995
‘‘Di Shiteh mit a Bagrentntsener Haskholeh un der Kium fun Yidish" , SD Yiddish Circle, June 1996.
‘Beyond Proficiency with a Japanese Mini-Course’, Assoc. of Japanese Teachers, Ann Arbor April, 1997.
‘gishah qitsonit lehoraat ivrit’, NAPH Conference for the Teaching of Hebrew, Los Angeles, July 1997.
‘Some "SILL-y" Tricks for Teaching Foreign Language’, ALL Conference, San Diego, October 1997.
Lecture & Workshop at Brigham Young University, by invitation, January 1998.
"Mechanical Media & ‘S.I.L.L.’", SW Association of Language Learning & Technology, Northridge 11/99.

"Methodological Innovation & Mechanical Media", Emerging Technologices in Tchng. Lang. & Culut., Monterey, 3/00.
"Special Students, Special Languages", CALICO, 5/00.
"An Innovative Approach to Foreign Language Needs in Business", CIBER, 5/01.
"The Hebrew Alphabet", Symposium on Writing, SDSU, 4/01.
with Queenie Chaturonkagul, "An Innovative Approach to Thai", Eleventh Annual Conference on Southeast Asian Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, July 13-15, 2001.
Workshop in EFL, July 25-27, 2001, Taipei, Taiwan.
‘Kabbalah/Sufism and Hebrew/Arabic Key-Letters’. Western Jewish Studies Conf., San Francisco, March 2002.
‘A Heretical Method for Teaching Foreign Languages’, TEXFLEC, Austin, March 2002.
‘gishah qitsonit lehoraat ivrit behhul’ [‘a radical method for teaching Hebrew abroad’]. Jerusalem Conf. on Hebrew Teaching, June 2002.
‘otiyot mafteahh behoraat ivrit’ [‘key-letters in teaching Hebrew’]. NAPH Conference, July 2002, Beer-Sheva Israel.
‘Water-Way: Asymmetric Teaching of Tones in Mandarin’, Third Annual Conference on Teaching Chinese. Nanjing, July 2002.
Workshop (9 hours) in teaching Hebrew, Committee on Alernatives in Jewish education, by invitation, August 2002.

‘Kabbalah as a Symbolic System’, Western Jewish Studies Association, Eugene Oregon, March 2003.

‘Towards Diversity of Method’, American Association of Applied Linguistics, Virginia, March 2003.

‘A Mystic World-View’, Humanities Conference, U. of Aegean, July 2003.

‘A Kabbalistic Theory of Theories’, Humanities Conference, Hawaii, January 2004.

‘Single-Segment Submorphemes’, Humanities Conference, Hawaii, January 2004.

‘Teaching Hebrew’, in-service workshop at Temple Sollel, Encinitas, 2/04.

‘Key-Consonants in Semitic’, NACAL, San Diego, June 2004.

‘Reaching Special-Needs (and Ordinary) Learners’, NCOLCTL, Madison WI, April 2004.

‘Hebrew Key-Letters’, NAPH, Austin TX, June 2004.

‘The Case Against Immersion’, Reading Matrix On-Line Conference, September 2004.

‘An Alternative to Immersion’, LARC Conference on Heritage Languages, San Diego, January 2005.

‘An Alternative to Immersion’, Northridge Program in Linguistics, by Invitation, April 2005.

‘otiyot mafteahh be’ivrit’ [“Key Letters in Hebrew”], Pre-Congress to Zionist Congress, Hebrew U., July 2005.

Organizer of panel, ‘Grammar Sequencing’, for TESOL Annual Conference, Seattle, March 2007.

foreign language Mini-Courses
SDSU: Spanish (1988), Hebrew (1988), Arabic (1988); German (within regular, 1988, 1990); Russian (Summer, 1991); in Multi-Language courses: Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Yiddish, Greek, Gaelic, Russian, Serbian, Macedonian, Farsi, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Swahili, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai.

Languages taught by others in "multi-language experiment": Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Gaelic.

SDSU Extended Studies, "Foreign Language for Scaredy-Cats": Japanese (Spring 1991); German, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew (Fall 1991); Hebrew & Arabic (Spring 1992); Italian, Greek, Serbian, Chinese, Japanese (Fall 1992); French, Russian, & Hebrew (Spring 1993); "Learn Any Language" Fall 1996, Feb. 1997; Japanese for Spanish Dept. teachers, 1995, 1996; "Read Any Language," Fall 1997; UCSD Extended Studies Career Day, Sept. 1993; Speak a New Language" SDSU Extension, each semester since Fall ’97.

at local schools: Foreign Language Club, Granite Hills HS: Russian & Japanese (1988), Japanese (in elem. course, Southwestern Coll., 1988, 1989), Exploratory Course (Cantonese, Greek, Italian) for 8th graders, HDS; Hebrew reading program used at Hebrew Day School (since 1987), Chabad special program for LD Young Adults (1994);

taught by others: Arabic program at Grossmont College. & City College; Spanish at local HS, Spanish & French at local adult school.

private courses taught by me or my interns: Hebrew (speaking, reading), Arabic, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Czech.

LEARNING ANNEX, San Diego,"Speak a New Language" (1-session workshop), given monthly Feb.’95–present.; Los Angeles, Mar.’98–present, San Francisco Nov. .’98, Apr. ’99.

PUBLIC LECTURES
Tifereth Israel Syn., SD, Shavuot evening, Friendship Club, Adult ed.; Temple Judea, Laguna CA; Elder Hostel, SD; Educational Growth Opportunities, SD; Fundraising Lecture for Hebrew High, SD; Lipinsky Institute Lecture Series, SDSU.

selected topics: Thousands of Languages: Where Did They All Come From? How Jews Created the Modern World; How to Think Like an Ancient Hebrew; What’s Missing in Judaism; Judaism in the 21st Century; Kabbalah – How Does This Mysticism Differ from All Other Mysticisms?