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David E. Freeman

Speaking Topics

• Academic language for English language learners and struggling readers (grades 3-12)
• Closing the achievement gap for English language learners (grades 4 to 12)
• Working effectively with long-term and limited formal schooling English learners (grades 4 to 12)
• Principles of second language acquisition and second language teaching (K-12)
• Developing reading proficiency for English language learners (K-12)
• Dual language essentials (K-6)
• Keys for developing bilingualism and biliteracy (all levels)
• Linguistics for teachers (all levels)

Speaker Bio

David E. Freeman is the coauthor or coeditor (with Yvonne S. Freeman) of ten Heinemann books, including:

• La ensenanza de la lectura y la escritura en espanol y ingles en salones de clases bilingues y de doble inmersion, segunda edición revisada (2009)
• Academic Language for English Language Learners and Struggling Readers (2008)
• Diverse Learners in the Maintstream Classroom (2008)
• Teaching Reading and Writing in Spanish and English in Bilingual and Dual Language Classrooms, Second Edition (2006)
• Dual Language Essentials for Teachers and Administrators (2004)
• Essential Linguistics (2004)
• Closing the Achievement Gap (2002)
• Between Worlds, Second Edition (2001)
• Teaching Reading in Multilingual Classrooms (2000)
• ESL/EFL Teaching (1998).

David Freeman is a professor of Reading and ESL in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Intercultural Studies of the College of Education at the University of Texas–Brownsville.

David and Yvonne Freeman are Heinemann Professional Development Providers.

Grades: K - 12