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Lana Amro

PhD Candidate

Email: lana.amro@inn.no
Phone number: +47 62 43 05 26

Faculty of education
Department of educational studies in teacher education
Campus Hamar, Room 2P328

Short description

Lana Amro is a research fellow in PROFF - PhD. in Teaching and Teacher education. Lana has general teacher education (classroom teacher education). She has a master degree in adapted education from INN. Lana has extensive experience as a bilingual subject teacher and mother tongue teacher/ Heritage language teacher for Arabic-speaking students. She also has experience as a university lecturer in INN in various subjects with a focus on linguistic and cultural diversity and inclusion in education. The PhD research project that Lana is working on has the following title "Arabic-speaking students' translinguistic and transcultural identity development through digital Arabic language learning". Lana's research interests include:

- Professional practices in multilingual and multicultural schools

- Heritage language education

- Linguistic and cultural identity of minority students.

- Inclusion of linguistic and cultural diversity in education

- Translanguaging

Projects

Dekom - Second language pedagogy (Decentralized competence development) - Oslo municipality

Research groups

Diversity in Education

Amro, Lana & Iversen, Jonas Yassin (2025). Translanguaging in transnational digital Arabic heritage language education. European Educational Research Journal. p. 1–21. doi: 10.1177/14749041241311958. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Due to globalisation and migration, the Arabic-speaking population in Europe has rapidly increased over the past few decades. To maintain the Arabic language, children across Europe attend community-based heritage language education. With the development of new communication technologies, digital Arabic heritage language education is gaining popularity. Although previous research from community-based Arabic heritage language education in physical educational settings indicate that some translanguaging is taking place, little is known about how the digital setting of online Arabic heritage language teaching influences language practices and pedagogies. Hence, this article investigates the following research question: How does a heritage language teacher of Arabic use translanguaging as a pedagogy in digital heritage language education? To answer this question, a digital linguistic ethnography over 7 months was conducted, involving digital classroom observations, interviews with one teacher and five students and the collection of documents. Adopting a translinguistic perspective, the analysis shows how the teacher capitalised on students’ translingual resources to create a safe space, challenging language hierarchies and supporting the development of literacy skills in Modern Standard Arabic. Based on these findings, we discuss how the online teaching setting contributes to shaping the language practices of the digital classroom.

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Amro, Lana (2026). Heritage language teacher as a transcultural agent in digital Arabic heritage language (AHL) education. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
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Amro, Lana (2026). The use of translanguaging pedagogies in transnational digital Arabic heritage language education. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Webinar som omhandler bruk av transspårking som pedagogisk strategi i digital arabisk morsmålsopplæring utenfor ordinær skoleopplæring
Amro, Lana (2025). Translanguaging in transnational digital Arabic heritage language education. Full text in Research Archive
Amro, Lana (2025). Transcultural pedagogies in Arabic heritage language education. Full text in Research Archive
Amro, Lana (2025). Heritage language teacher as a transcultural agent in digital Arabic heritage language (AHL) education. Full text in Research Archive
Amro, Lana & Iversen, Jonas Yassin (2024). Heritage language education and its significance for mainstream schooling. Full text in Research Archive
Amro, Lana & Iversen, Jonas Yassin (2024). Translinguistic pedagogies in community-based digital Arabic heritage language education. Full text in Research Archive
Amro, Lana (2024). Translinguistic practices and identities in community-based digital Arabic heritage language education. Full text in Research Archive
Amro, Lana (2024). Researching translinguistic pedagogies and identities in community-based digital Arabic heritage language education: Data collection and analysis in digital contexts. Full text in Research Archive
Amro, Lana; Plessis, Danelle du & Kjelling, Anne Grethe (2023). Intersectionality and Researcher Positionality in Researching with Minority Groups. Full text in Research Archive
Amro, Lana (2023). Community-based Arabic heritage language education as a transnational space. Full text in Research Archive
Amro, Lana (2023). Article discussion: Including alternative stories in the mainstream. How transcultural young people in Norway perform creative cultural resistance in and outside of school. Dewilde & Skrefsrud, 2016. International Journal of Inclusive Education. Full text in Research Archive

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Addresses

Visiting Address

Midtbyen Park
Skoleveien 4, 2318 Hamar
Room 2P328
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Postal Address

University of Inland Norway
Postboks 400 Vestad
2418 Elverum
Norway