Bio:
Dr. Yvonne Freeman is a Professor of Bilingual Education at the University of Texas at Brownsville. She is interested in bilingual education, second language acquisition, and literacy education for English learners. She 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 gives featured and keynote presentations across the country. In 1994-95 she 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, she has taught courses in Spain and Lithuania. In 2006 she traveled to Baharain where she and her husband keynoted 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. In the fall the Freemans also keynoted the Southeast Regional TESOL conference. In the spring of 2007, the Freemans will travel to Sweden as invited speakers for an international conference on teaching English learners and keynote at the Florida TESOL conference.
Yvonne Freeman has published articles and book chapters jointly with her husband and separately on the topics of second language teaching, biliteracy, bilingual education, Spanish children’s literature, and second language acquisition. The Freeman’s newest book, English Language Learners: The Essential Guide (Scholastic, 2007) is meant for mainstream teachers with ELLs in their classrooms. Other recent books include Teaching Reading and Writing in Spanish and English in Bilingual and Dual Language Classrooms Heinemann, March, 2006) and the translation of this book, La enseñanza de la lectura y la escritura en salones bilingües y de doble imersión (Heinemann, 2007). Their other books, all published by Heinemann, 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/EFL Teaching: Principles for Success (2001) . These books can be found at (http://www.heinemann.com/)
In addition, to their other publications, the Freemans are lead 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.
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