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BLANCA G. QUIROZTexas A & M University, College of Education and Human DevelopmentCollege Station, Texas 77843-4232Office phone: 979 845 7952 Cell: 979 571 7936Email: bquiroz@tamu.edu & quirozfam@msn.edu EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCEHarvard Graduate School of Education, Human Development and PsychologyEd. D., 2005Cambridge, MAHarvard Graduate School of Education, Human Development and PsychologyM. A. Ed., 2001Cambridge, MAUniversity of California Los AngelesB. A. Psych. 1993Los Angeles, CATEACHING PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCESep. 2005 - PresentAssistant Professor Bilingualism and Biliteracy, Texas A & M UniversityJune 2004 - Sep. 2005Full Time Faculty, Wheelock College June 2003 - Dec. 2003 Lecturer Simmons CollegeMOST RESENT ADVANCED TRAINNING2009 Multivariance analysis presented by Robert ThompsonPsychometrics presented By Robert ThompsonMetalinguistic analysis presented by Victor Willson2008 Expert Reviewer, Expert Review Panel, National Evaluation of the Comprehensive Technical Assistance Centers. Philadelphia, PA: Branch Associates. Contract from Institute of Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC. 2008Research Training, Early Childhood Longitudinal Project. Secondary data analysis of National data set. New Orleans, LA. 2007Expert Reviewer, Expert Review Panel, National Evaluation of the Comprehensive Technical Assistance Centers. Philadelphia, PA: Branch Associates. Contract from Institute of Educational Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC. 2006 Faculty Training Fellowship . National Assessment of Educational Progress data analysis training (NAEP). Washington, DCRESEARCH INTERESTSLanguage Minority Families set high educational goals for their children, but families and schools have limited knowledge based on scientific evidence for the best ways to help children from diverse languages and cultures achieve those high educational goals. My experience as a bilingual teacher in Southern California made me cognizant of the difficulties that children from language minority families face in learning at school.?That realization guided my research interests in bilingualism and its role on literacy acquisition and development. As a researcher I focus on finding the best ways to bridge the gap between home and school; building bridges between languages to impact the literacy skills of bilingual children; and finding the best way to help teachers and parents build a learning environment where children from language minorities could have the best opportunity to attain educational success. PUBLICATIONS AND IN PRESS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS *Quiroz, B. G., & Snow, C. E. & Zhao, J. (2010, In Press).Vocabulary skills of Spanish/English bilinguals: impact of mother-child language interactions and home language and literacy support. International Journal of Bilingualism.Pe?a, E., Bedore, L. & Quiroz, B. G. (2010, In Press) Grammatical structure and language proficiency influences lexical use in narratives. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing ResearchQuiroz, G. B., & Snow. C. E. (2009, In Press). Y dónde está la rana? Latino mothers’ picture-book based interactions with their children. Bilingual Research Journal, 32(3).Rothstein-Fisch, C., Greenfield, P. M.Trumbull, E., Keller, Heidi, & Quiroz, B. (2008). Discovering Culture in Learning, Development, and Education. In D. Preiss & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.) Towards an integrative, developmental, and contextual science of education. Eslami, Z., Eslami-Rasekh, A., & Quiroz, B. (2007). English for academic purposes in Iran: A study of perceptions of English needs in academic contexts. ESP Across Cultures 4, 21-36.Greenfield, P. M., Quiroz, B., & Raeff, C. (2000). Cross-cultural conflict and harmony in the social construction of the child. In S. Harkness, C. Raeff, & C. M. Super (Eds.), New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development,87, 93-108. San Francisco: Josey-Bass Publishers. A modified version of this paper was published in Carrie Rothstein-Fish (2001) (Ed). Readings for bridging cultures: Teacher education module. San Francisco, CA: West Ed Lab.Quiroz, B., Greenfield, P. M., & Altchech, M. (2000). Bridging cultures with a parent-teacher conference. Educational Leadership: Race, Class, and Culture, 56(7), 68-70. A modified version of this paper was published in Readings for bridging cultures: Teacher education module (2001). Carrie Rothstein-Fish (Ed). San Francisco: West Ed Lab.Raeff, C., Greenfield, P. M., & Quiroz, B. (2000). Conceptualizing interpersonal relationships in the cultural contexts of individualism and collectivism. In S. Harkness, C. Raeff, & C. M. Super. (Eds.), New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 87, 59-74.Greenfield, P. M., Quiroz, B., & Raeff, C. (1998). Cross-cultural conflict in the social construction of the child. Aztlan, The Journal of Chicano Studies, 23, 115-125.Revised and expanded version published in 2000 as Cross-cultural conflict and harmony in the social construction of the child. In S. Harkness, C. Raeff, & C. R. Super (Eds.), The social construction of the child, new directions in child development. (pp. 93-108). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. French translation appeared in a special issue of Psychologie de l’interaction, edited by E. Veneziano, 7-8, 1998. A modified version of this paper was published in Carrie Rothstein-Fish (2001) (Ed). Readings for bridging cultures: Teacher education module. San Francisco: West Ed Lab.Quiroz, B., Greenfield, P. M., & Altchech, M. (1998). Bridging cultures between home and school: The parent-teacher conference. Connections: Bridging educational research and practice, 87, 30-49. CHAPTERS AND BOOKS EDITIONSGreenfield, P.M., Trumbull, E., Keller, H., Rothstein-Fisch, C., Suzuki, L., & Quiroz, B. (2006). Cultural conceptions of learning and development. In P.A. Alexander & P. H. Winne (Eds.), Handbook of educational psychology (special edition APA division 15). Baolian, D, Feinauer, E., & Quiroz, B. (in alphabetical order) (2001). Introduction. In D. Baolian, E. Feinauer, & B. Quiroz (Eds.). Harvard Educational Review, 71(3), v-ix.Baolian D, Feinauer, E., & Quiroz, B. (Eds. in alphabetical order). (2001). Special issue: Immigration and education. Harvard Educational Review, 71(3), Cambridge, MA.Greenfield, P. M., Raeff, C., & Quiroz, B. (1996). Cultural values in learning and education. In B. Williams (Ed.), Closing the achievement gap: A vision for changing beliefs and practices (pp. 37-55). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. SUBMITTED TO PEER REVIEWED JOURNALSQuiroz, B. G. & Dixon, L. Q. (in Press). Mother-child talk in four language minority families: Education in a fractured bilingual environment. Bilingual Research JournalDixon, L. Q., Chuang, H.-K., & Quiroz, B. G. (submitted to Applied Psycholinguistics). Does vocabulary predict phonological awareness among bilingual children? Evidence from Singaporean kindergartners. ................
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