Deborah Romero |
Dr. Deborah Romero is an Assistant Professor in ESL/Bilingual Education in the Hispanic Studies Program at the University of Northern Colorado. Dr. Romero teaches in the ESL/Bilingual Endorsement Program and also teaches graduate courses in Linguistically Diverse Education for the School of Teacher Education. Dr. Romero has taught High School in the United Kingdom and college courses in Mexico and the U.S. Her research centers on second language and literacy acquisition, family literacy, and the role of technology in these processes.
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications
Articles
- Walker, D., and Romero, D. (2008). “When ‘Literacy is a Bennie’: Researching Contested Literacies in a Bilingual Youth Radio Project.” Ethnography and Education, 3(3), 283-296.
- Perry-Romero, D., & Vernon, S. (2005). “Conceptualizaciones infantiles del español escrito a partir de un idioma extranjero.” Lingüística Mexicana, Asociación Mexicana de Linguística Aplicada, 2(1).
Book Chapters
- Romero, D., and Walker, D. (accepted). “Pushing the Boundaries of Writing: The Consequentiality of Visualizing Voice in Bilingual Youth Radio.” In C. Bazerman, P. Rogers, and K. Stansell (eds.), Traditions of Writing Research: Routledge.
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Durán, R., Durán, J., Ramirez, R., and Perry-Romero, D. (2004). The Immigrant Parents’ Computer Literacy Project: A Strategies Guide for Implementation (Educational Practice Report CREDE-9088EPR10). Santa Cruz: Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence. University of California.
- Referenced in Building Partnerships with Latino Immigrant Parents by Shannon Fitzsimmons, Center for Applied Linguistics (July 2003).
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Durán, R., Durán, J., Reyes-Sanchez, E., and Perry-Romero, D. (2001). “Latino Immigrant Parents and Children Publishing Together in an After School Setting.” Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk (JESPAR), 6(1), 95-113.
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Referenced in Flood, J., and Anders, P. (eds.). (2005). Literacy Development of Students in Urban Schools: Research and Policy. International Reading Association, Inc.
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Recent Presentations
- “Developing Voice and Multimodal Literacies through Bilingual Youth Radio”—A presentation given at the Colorado Association for Bilingual Education (CABE), October 2-4, 2008, in Denver, Colorado, on July 4, 2008.
- “Without Borders, Within Reach: Multimodal Literacies as Tools for Promoting Youth Writing in and out of School.”—A paper presented at Writing Research across Borders, February 22-24, 2008, at the University of California Santa Barbara.
- “Youth Media: An Innovative Context for Developing Language, Voice, and Multimodal Literacies among Disaffected Learners.”—A paper presented to the British Association of Applied Linguistics, September 6-8, 2007, at Edinburgh University, Scotland.
- “New Representations: Mexican Voices Re-constructing Identities through Youth Media and Multimodal Literacies.”—A paper presented at the Oxford Education and Ethnography Conference, September 10-11, 2007, at Oxford University, England.
Funded Projects
- Northern Colorado Upward Bound (NCUB) Program. (2008) In collaboration with Eric Rennaker and the César Chávez Cultural Center. U.S. Department of Education. Amount $1,250,000 for five years.
- Romero, D. and Walker, D. (2007): New Representations for New Understandings: Audio and Visual Narratives from a School-Community based Youth Media Project. A DVD dissemination project. SPARC, UNC. Amount awarded $7,200.
- Walker, D. and Romero, D. (2007) Diversity in Education Research Initiative (DERI), University of Northern Colorado. Grant: Literacy and Language through Youth Radio and Creative Arts: Latino Voices Speak Out. Amount awarded: $5000.
