UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIALINGUISTIC MINORITY RESEARCH INSTITUTEA University of California Multi-Campus Research Unit |
UC LMRI is governed by a Director and a Faculty Steering Committee appointed by the Office of the President.
Members of the Faculty Steering Committee represent each of the UC campuses and serve renewable three-year terms. In addition to the campus representatives, the Steering Committee includes a representative from the UC Office of the President.
See also: Faculty Steering Committee Research
Current UC LMRI Faculty Steering Committee Members:
- Jamal Abedi
- Adalberto Aguirre, Jr.
- Joseph Castro
- Margaret A. Gibson
- Kris Gutierrez
- Jin Sook Lee
- Paula Levin
- Robert Ochsner
- Robin Scarcella
- Laura Sterponi
- Dante Noto, Ex Officio
- Jeannie Oakes, Ex Officio
- Laura Romo, Ex Officio
- Russell W. Rumberger, Ex Officio
- Patricia Gandara, Ex Officio
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Representing: UC Irvine 1990-2009
Dr. Robin Scarcella is Director of the ESL Program and Lecturer of the ESL Program/Linguistics Department of the University of California, Irvine.
She has written over twenty articles on ESL teaching and L2 acquisition, edited three volumes and written one book. Her articles have appeared in such journals as the TESOL quarterly, Language Learning, Brain and Language and Second Language Research. She has been an invited lecturer at over twenty universities and institutes including the Center for Applied Linguistics, the Foreign Language Institute, Stanford and the University of Hawaii.
She received her doctoral degree in Linguistics at the University of Southern California and her masters in Second Language Acquisition-Education from Stanford University.
Email: rcscarce@uci.edu