Research

My scholarly work specializes on the exploration of economic, cultural, and linguistic issues constraining and enabling the academic literacy achievement of culturally and linguistically diverse students in the US and on connecting these issues to advocacy and sound curricular practice. I anchor my academic work on postructural materialism, critical discourse studies, critical pedagogy, legitimation code theory and systemic functional linguistics (SFL).

The collection of academic presentations, publications, and advocacy efforts I have conducted are of uttermost interest to teachers, teacher educators, and community leaders in the US working and/or seeking to improve the academic achievement of linguistically and culturally diverse students. Another audience that may benefit are school administrators, and policy makers. I have also begun to extend the product of my work in the US context to implications of applying US dominant educational policy in Latin American countries, so international audiences in the roles described above can also benefit from this work.