Dorit Ravid
Dorit Ravid is Professor at the School of Education and the Department of Communications Disorders, Tel Aviv University, Israel. She studied theoretical linguistics and then received her Ph.D. in developmental psycholinguistics from Tel Aviv University. She has published three books and numerous articles on language acquisition and the development of linguistic literacy, and serves on the boards of several international journals and research centres. Dorit served as Chair of the Israeli Association of Literacy and Language in 2000-2006 and is currently the President of the Israeli Linguistic Circle.
Dorit's chief research interest is the acquisition of Hebrew as a Semitic language across infancy, childhood and adolescence, in language-internal analyses and cross-linguistic comparisons. She studies the development of lexical and morpho-syntactic categories both as specific constructions and as components of different discourse types in speech and writing. Her work is carried out in children of different socio-economic backgrounds and in typically and atypically developing populations.
Dorit's research findings are applied in Israeli educational contexts to the assessment of schoolchildren's literacy and language skills by the National Authority of Measurement and Assessment in Education (RAMA), and in large-scale projects funded by Yad HaNadiv (Rothschild Foundation).