Bio:
Dr. David Freeman is a Professor of Reading at the University of Texas at Brownsville. He is interested in linguistics, second language acquisition, and literacy education for English learners. He presents regularly at international, national, and state conferences-including NABE (National Association of Bilingual Education) TABE (Texas Association of Bilingual Education), NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English), IRA (International Reading Association) and TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) and give featured and keynote presentations across the country. In 1994-95 he spent a year in Mérida, Venezuela, at the Universidad de Los Andes as a Fulbright scholar. In the summer of 1997 she worked with bilingual teachers in Argentina and Uruguay. More recently, he has taught courses in Spain and Lithuania. In the spring of 2006 he will travel to Baharain where he and his wife will keynote at the TARA conference which is an International Reading Association conference in the Middle East and to Toronto to keynote a conference for teachers of English as a second language.
David Freeman has published articles and book chapters jointly with his wife and separately on the topics of second language teaching, biliteracy, bilingual education, linguistics, and second language acquisition. The Freeman’s newest book, came out in March of 2006, Teaching Reading and Writing in Spanish and English in Bilingual and Dual Language Classrooms. The translation of this book, La enseñanza de la lectura y la escritura en salones bilingües y de doble imersión will be out in the Spring of 2007. Their other books include: Dual Language Essentials for Teachers and Administrators ( 2005), Essential Linguistics: What You Need to Know to Teach Reading, ESL, Spelling, Phonics, and Grammar (2004); Closing the Achievement Gap: How to Reach Limited Formal Schooling and Long-Term English Learners (2002), the second edition of Between Worlds: Access to Second Language Acquisition (2001), which received the Mildenberger Award from the Modern Language Association for outstanding research in the field of foreign and second language teaching, Teaching Reading in Multilingual Classrooms (2000), and ESL/EFT Teaching: Principles for Success (2001) . All the Freeman’s publications are available through Heinemann http://www.heinemann.com/ In addition, to their other publications, the Freemans are authors of Rigby’s new ESL program, On Our Way to English are part of the author team for Rigby’s new Rigby Literacy program. Literacy by Design http://rigby.harcourtachieve.com/en-US/rigby.htm |
