Home Department: Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies
SLAT Areas of Specialization: Instructional Dimensions of L2 Learning, Sociocultural Dimensions of L2 Learning
Dr. Yousra Abourehab is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. As an applied linguist and educator, Yousra has taught Arabic as a foreign and heritage language. She has also taught courses on global education, linguistic foundations, and instruction and assessment that focus on preparing pre-service teachers for working with bilingual/multilingual learners. She also developed and delivered K-16 professional learning series and workshops in international education and multilingualism through multiple collaborative projects, including the Worlds of Experience for Language Learning (WELL) project. Currently, she is directing the Global Education undergraduate program at the College of Education.
Her collaborative research on literacy practices and learning in communities around makerspaces and multilingual community-based contexts has won the 2021 J. Michael Parker Award from the Literacy Research Association. Her research interests include multilingualism, global education, community-based learning, language planning policy, and Arabic as a global language. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press), Intercultural Communication Education (Castletown), Multilingual and Multicultural Development (Routledge), and Action in Teacher Education (Taylor & Francis) (Google Scholar).