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.

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Awards

Recipient of the Latina/o Faculty Recognition Award given by La Casa Cultural Latina, May 2003.

Elected to the National Reading Conference's Board of Directors, April 2002.

Recipient of a Fulbright-Garcia/Robles Scholars Award to Mexico. Awarded April 27, 2001, for the spring semester 2002.

Recipient of a College of Education Distinguished Scholar Award, 1999-2000. Sponsored by the College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Recipient of the Albert J. Harris Award, 1999 for outstanding contribution to the diagnosis or instruction of learners experiencing problems developing as readers and writers. Sponsored by the International Reading Association.

Recipient of the Initial Career Award made by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education for the grant, Culturally and linguistically relevant strategy instruction for language minority students with learning disabilities, 1997-2000.

Recipient of the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award granted by the UIUC Campus Research Board for the Research Proposal titled, A Strategic Approach to Literacy Instruction for Low-Performing Bilingual Latina/o Students, October, 1996.

Awarded a two-year Faculty Fellows' appointment in the Bureau of Educational Research, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, academic years 1996-1997, 2003-2004.

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