Mark Pacheco

Dr. Mark Pacheco is known for his work in language and literacy practices of emerging bilingual students and how teachers can support these practices. He is currently part of three research projects that investigate 1) how emerging bilingual students strategically translate texts to support their language and literacy development, 2) how emerging bilingual students participate in biology classrooms, and 3) how emerging bilingual students engage in digital multimodal composition. Dr. Pacheco received his PhD in Learning, Teaching and Diversity from Vanderbilt University (2016). He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant to develop more responsive pedagogy for emergent bilinguals in biology classrooms and a Lyle Spencer Research award for using translation to support emergent bilinguals. His research has been published in the Journal of Literacy Research, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, TESOL Quarterly, Language Arts and Bilingual Research Journal. Prior to academia, he was a high school ESL and English teacher in New York City. Dr. Pacheco is an Assistant Professor of English for Speakers of Other Languages and Bilingual Education at the University of Florida.

For more information: https://education.ufl.edu/faculty/pacheco-mark/

To cite this episode: Persohn, L. (Host). (2021, Apr. 20). A conversation with Mark Pacheco. (Season 1, No. 23) [Audio podcast episode]. In Classroom Caffeine Podcast series. https://www.classroomcaffeine.com/guests. DOI: 10.5240/9A25-447F-E120-B7D4-0D20-9