Ofra Inbar‐Lourie

Biographic Data

ID6787890
NAMEOfra Inbar‐Lourie
GIVEN NAMESOfra
FAMILY NAMEInbar‐Lourie
SIGNATURELOURIE O I
AFFILIATIONSTel Aviv University
ORCID0000-0002-8653-1851
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Language Assessment Literacy

    Open AccessOfra Inbar‐LourieCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2026

    Language assessment literacy (LAL) is derived from general assessment literacy and refers to the expertise all language assessment stakeholders require to perform assessment tasks and partake in assessment‐based decision‐making. LAL research has progressed steadily since 2008 to becoming one of the most widely researched domains in language assessment, accentuating the assessment language literacy connection, with a focus on language teachers' as…

  • Indeterminacy, disruption, and (more) intelligent approaches to classroom language assessment

    Open AccessMatthew E Poehner, Ofra Inbar‐LourieARTICLEStudies in Language Assessment2024

    As the COVID-19 pandemic brought nearly all public activities to a halt in 2020, the disruptions to education were as significant as in any domain (Ali et al., 2020).The months that followed -and in some cases much longer was required before there was a return to any kind of normalcy -challenged teachers to identify, adapt, and create practices that could enable them to continue to make progress toward learning goals and, equally important, to ma…

  • Advocacy strategies for a new multilingual educational policy in Israel

    Open AccessMichal Tannenbaum, Elana Shohamy et al.ARTICLELanguage Policy2022References: 12

  • EMI Lecturers in international universities

    Ofra Inbar‐Lourie, Smadar Donitsa‐Schmidt et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Though the relevance of language teachers’ native/non-native (N/NN) background has been researched extensively, little is known about its applicability to cases where the lecturer uses English as the medium of instruction (EMI). This study's purpose, which was conducted in Israeli higher education institutions, was to elicit students’ perceptions on this topic and to explore their expectations regarding desired EMI lecturers’ qualities. The parti…

  • Language Assessment Literacy

    Open AccessOfra Inbar‐LourieCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2012

    Language assessment literacy forms the knowledge base needed to conduct language assessment procedures, that is, to design, administer, interpret, utilize, and report language assessment data for different purposes. The term is derived from the generic assessment literacy concept which refers to the knowledge and skills required for performing assessment‐related actions (Stiggins, 1991; Webb, 2002). Language assessment literacy encompasses not on…

  • English only? The linguistic choices of teachers of young EFL learners

    Open AccessOfra Inbar‐LourieARTICLEInternational Journal of…2010

    This research attempted to explore the language patterns of teachers of varying linguistic backgrounds teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) to young learners. In particular it examined the teachers’ use of the students’ first language (L1). The sample included six teachers teaching EFL to young learners in Hebrew and Arabic medium schools. Results reveal diverse use patterns, some of which differ from those previously found in older learn…

  • Constructing a language assessment knowledge base

    Open AccessOfra Inbar‐Lourie, Ofra Inbar-LourieARTICLELanguage Testing2008

    These changes have impacted the knowledge base language assessors need to obtain, and hence the contents of language assessment courses. This paper considers the possible components of a language assessment literacy knowledge base, and proposes the establishment of a core knowledge framework for courses in language assessment