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Phone

250-571-0120

Email

gramirez@tru.ca

Links

Personal website

Dr. Gloria Ramirez

Associate Professor, Open Learning Faculty Member

Faculty of Education and Social Work
Department of Education

Summary

• Identify effective assessment and teaching strategies to accelerate language and literacy development among diverse populations.
• Identify effective and culturally sensitive approaches of intergenerational Indigenous language revitalization.
• Identify effective teaching strategies for early language and literacy intervention
• Identify effective strategies to support learners with dyslexia.

Expertise, interests and research

  Education    Language/Linguistics    Teachers

Other areas of expertise:    Reading development among diverse populations    Indigenous language revitalization    Dyslexia

Languages

English, Spanish, some Italian


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