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Full Name
Sylvia Thompson
First Name
Sylvia
Last Name
Thompson
Affiliation
Faculty
Title
Associate Professor
Additional Title
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Phone
541-346-2483
Office
352 HEDCO Education Bldg
Departments
College of Education
Special Education
Profile Section
Biography

Dr. Sylvia Linan-Thompson is an associate professor at the University of Oregon in the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences and is affiliated with the Center on Teaching and Learning. Her primary research interests are examining appropriate instructional and assessment practices for English learners. She was previously at the University of Texas. She also works on international development projects in education and has collaborated with the World Bank, UNESCO, and the US Agency for International Development on education projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.

Education
PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Major: Special Education
 
MS, University of Miami
Major: Early Childhood/Special Education 
 
BS, The University of Texas at Austin
Major: Education
Research

Dr. Linan-Thompson has focused her research on the instructional needs of English learners (ELs). She has she been PI or Co-PI of longitudinal intervention research projects that developed and examined reading interventions for struggling readers who are monolingual English speakers, English language learners and bilingual students acquiring Spanish literacy in elementary and middle school. She is currently examining the English writing development of ELs with and with our learning disabilities. She has also studied the efficacy of Response to Instruction frameworks in dual language schools serving a high percentage of ELs.

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