Gilberto Lara, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
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Dr. Gilberto P. Lara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bilingual and Bicultural Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has over 16 years of emergent bilingual education experience in dual-language, sheltered contents and teacher education settings. A former bilingual and ESL classroom teacher, he holds a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in Bilingual/Bicultural Education. He earned Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Boise State University in Education with concentrations in Bilingual Education and ESL Methods. His research interests are to explore the pedagogical practices of teachers in dual language/EL classrooms and the incorporation of community cultural wealth through the use of multicultural children's literature. He spent his childhood in both the United States and Mexico, he considers himself, bilingual-bicultural-biliterate. In 2017 he was named a STAR Fellow in the Literacy Research Association. His work has been recognized by the National Association of Bilingual Association as the 2016 Second Place Outstanding Dissertation Award. He has published in the Bilingual Research Journal, Social Studies and the Young Learner and recently the book: The Reading Turn-Around with Emergent Bilinguals: A Five-Part Framework for Powerful Teaching and Learning.
