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4572
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2012 - Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Guadalupe Valdés is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities. The main subfields of their work include Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory, Education, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their research focuses on a range of topics related to language education and policy, including Multilingual Education and Policy, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Second Language Learning and Teaching, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, Parental Involvement in Education, and Writing and Handwriting Education.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Laura Alvarez, Sarah Capitelli, Bryant Jensen, Marguerite De Loney, and Ronald Gallimore.

Valdés has published in several academic venues, with recurring publications in Language and Education and Daedalus. Other venues include Educational Researcher, TESOL Journal, and Journal of Language Identity & Education.

Recent publications by Guadalupe Valdés and collaborators include:

  • Teachers Learning to Implement Equitable Classroom Talk, 2021, Educational Researcher
  • Beyond sentence frames: Scaffolding emergent multilingual students' participation in science discourse, 2023, TESOL Journal
  • Expanding participation: supporting newcomer students' language development through disciplinary practices, 2022, Language and Education
  • (Mis)educating the children of Mexican-origin people in the United States: the challenge of internal language borders, 2020, Intercultural Education
  • Social Justice Challenges of "Teaching" Languages, 2023, Daedalus

Throughout their career, Valdés has received several recognitions, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020, receiving the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award from the American Educational Research Association in 2012, and being named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools: An Ethnographic Portrait

    Guadalupe Valdes

  • Learning and not learning English : Latino students in American schools

    Guadalupe Valdés

  • Heritage Language Students: Profiles and Possibilities

    Guadalupe Valdés

  • Bilingualism and Testing: A Special Case of Bias

    Guadalupe Valdes;Richard A. Figueroa

  • Bilingualism, Heritage Language Learners, and SLA Research: Opportunities Lost or Seized?

    Guadalupe Valdés

  • Dual-Language Immersion Programs: A Cautionary Note Concerning the Education of Language-Minority Students

    Guadalupe Valdes

  • The World Outside and Inside Schools: Language and Immigrant Children

    Guadalupe Valdés

  • Science and Language for English Language Learners in Relation to Next Generation Science Standards and with Implications for Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics

    Okhee Lee;Helen Quinn;Guadalupe Valdés

  • Learning in and out of school in diverse environments: Life-Long, Life-Wide, Life-Deep

    J. Banks;K. Au;A.F. Ball;P. Bell

  • Between Support and Marginalisation: The Development of Academic Language in Linguistic Minority Children

    Guadalupe Valdés

  • The Teaching of Minority Languages as Academic Subjects: Pedagogical and Theoretical Challenges

    Guadalupe Valdés

  • Bilingual Minorities and Language Issues in Writing Toward Professionwide Responses to a New Challenge

    Guadalupe Valdés

  • Language demands and opportunities in relation to Next Generation Science Standards for English language learners: What teachers need to know

    H. Quinn;Okhee Lee;G. Valdes

  • Chicano Spanish: The Problem of the `Underdeveloped' Code in Bilingual Repertoires

    Guadalupe Valdés;Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci

  • Preparing Teachers for Teaching in and Advocating for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms: A Vade Mecum for Teacher Educators

    Christian J. Faltis;Guadalupe Valdes

  • Translanguaging and the Transdisciplinary Framework for Language Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual World

    Constant Leung;Guadalupe Valdés

  • Entre Familia: Immigrant Parents' Strategies for Involvement in Children's Schooling

    Luis E. Poza;Maneka Deanna Brooks;Guadalupe Valdés

  • Changes in the Expertise of ESL Professionals: Knowledge and Action in an Era of New Standards.

    Guadalupe Valdés;Amanda Kibler;Aída Walqui

  • Leadership giftedness: Models revisited

    Adelma A. Roach;Leisy T. Wyman;Heather Brookes;Christina Chavez

  • Teaching spanish to hispanic bilinguals: a look at oral proficiency testing and the proficiency movement

    Guadalupe Valdes

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua A. Fishman
Joshua A. Fishman Yeshiva University
Okhee Lee
Okhee Lee New York University
Ronald Gallimore
Ronald Gallimore University of California, Los Angeles
Ofelia García
Ofelia García City University of New York
Teresa L. McCarty
Teresa L. McCarty University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen Krashen
Stephen Krashen University of Southern California
Kris D. Gutiérrez
Kris D. Gutiérrez University of California, Berkeley
Nancy H. Hornberger
Nancy H. Hornberger University of Pennsylvania

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