Ramón Antonio Martínez will give a talk, "Beyond the "English Learner" Label: Recognizing the Richness of Students' Multilingual Repertoires," as part of SCOPE's Brown Bag Seminar Series. 

Dr. Martínez's 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 and Latina/o children and youth. He examines: (1) the everyday language and literacy practices of students of color, and the ways that these practices overlap with the forms of language and literacy privileged in academic settings; (2) the competing ideologies that inform language policy and classroom practice in urban schools, including the ways that students and teachers in these schools articulate, embody, and challenge such ideologies in their everyday interactions; and (3) the preparation of pre-service and in-service teachers to work with culturally and linguistically diverse learners.