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Dr. Aliza Amir has a Ph.D. in Hebrew language, Bar Ilan University (since 2006) . She holds a position of a lecturer at the Achva College for Education in the Hebrew department and in the faculty of education. Amir's research studies focus on the Hebrew language and its teaching (written and spoken discourse) in elementary and secondary school, generic and disciplinary literacy. Her studies are based on Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Dialogisity and Teachers' Professional Development. Dr. Amir's research studies combine the disciplinary issues and the teachers' development point of view.

Alongside her academic work at the college, she is the coordinator of the program Shalhevet (integration of literacy skills in all disciplines) in the Israeli ministry of education and is the person in command of the professional development of the supervisors of the Hebrew Language and of the teaching of Hebrew in the central district of Israel. Dr. Amir is a member of the Hebrew teaching committee and in other committees of the ministry of education who deal with language policy. In addition, she is a member of IAIMTE (International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education) and takes part in an international research study on the writing of school children.