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Department
Teaching and Learning
Office Location
261 Wyatt
Mailing Address
Peabody #330
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37203-5721
Direct Phone
615-322-8444
Fax Number
615-322-8999
Email Address
Robert Jiménez
Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992
Research Area
Comprehension strategies of bilingual readers and their uses for designing instruction; historical, transnational, and economic influences on literacy learning of linguistically diverse students; alternative literacies employed by linguistically diverse students.
Short Biography
Robert Jiménez received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He was previously a faculty member at the University of Oregon (1990-1994) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1994-2004). He teaches courses in research methods, second language literacy, and issues related to the education of Latino/Latina students. Jiménez has conducted research on the strategic processing of competent and less competent bilingual readers, and on the delivery of services and instruction to language minority students at risk for referral to special education and those with learning disabilities. He is now interested in using an ecological framework to examime the literacies of linguistically diverse students. He is also interested in the potential of alternative literacy practices to promote these same students' personal, political, and economic goals. Previously, Jiménez was both a bilingual and a migrant teacher for three years in northern Illinois. His work has been published in several journals including the American Educational Research Journal, Elementary School Journal, Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, and the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy.