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Research

Dr. Linan-Thompson has focused her resaerch 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.