Los Angeles: Beyond the "English Learner" Label with Professor Ramon Martinez
Event Details
06:00PM - 07:30PM
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Registration includes lecture and Q&A with Professor Martinez, appetizers, and beverages.
"English Learner" is a label that conceals more than it reveals, significantly obscuring our view of Latina/o/x students in urban schools. In this talk, Stanford Education Professor Ramon Martínez delves beneath this label to reveal the complexity of Latina/o/x students' everyday language, and uses examples from his ethnographic research at a Los Angeles school to shares findings that can inform the design of robust learning environments for Latina/o/x children and youth.
Co-presented by the Stanford Graduate School of Education, the Mount St. Mary’s University Los Angeles Education Department, and the Stanford Latino Alumni Association of Southern California.
About the Speaker
Ramón Antonio Martínez is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. His research explores the intersections of language, race, and ideology in the public schooling experiences of students of color, with a particular focus on bi/multilingual Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x children and youth. He has published articles in journals such as Linguistics and Education, Research in the Teaching of English, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Teachers College Record, and Review of Research in Education. Before joining the faculty at Stanford, Dr. Martínez was an assistant professor of Language and Literacy Studies in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to earning his doctorate from the Division of Urban Schooling at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies in 2009, Dr. Martínez worked as a bilingual elementary school teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
