Francisco Ramos, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Culture in Education, School of Education, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, where he teaches courses in second language acquisition theories and methodologies. His research interests revolve around teachers´ attitudes towards the use of language minority students´native languages in the classroom, strategies that may ease the English acquisition process of language minority students, and the implementation of one and two-way bilingual programs. He has widely published in English and in Spanish in the Bilingual Research Journal, Latinos and Education, International Multilingual Research Journal, the Revista Española de Educacion Comparada, Segundas Lenguas e Inmigracion, o la Revista Iberoamericana de Educacion, among other journals. Dr. Ramos will be presenting a plenary session for all participants and three workshops at the conference on how to approach ESL/EFL in bilingual, multicultural and plurilingual environments or related themes. The Organizing Committee welcomes Dr. Ramos and thanks him for his interest in sharing his knowledge and expertise with English language educators from Honduras. Thursday, March 4, 2010
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ph.D. FRANCISCO RAMOS
Francisco Ramos, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Culture in Education, School of Education, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, where he teaches courses in second language acquisition theories and methodologies. His research interests revolve around teachers´ attitudes towards the use of language minority students´native languages in the classroom, strategies that may ease the English acquisition process of language minority students, and the implementation of one and two-way bilingual programs. He has widely published in English and in Spanish in the Bilingual Research Journal, Latinos and Education, International Multilingual Research Journal, the Revista Española de Educacion Comparada, Segundas Lenguas e Inmigracion, o la Revista Iberoamericana de Educacion, among other journals. Dr. Ramos will be presenting a plenary session for all participants and three workshops at the conference on how to approach ESL/EFL in bilingual, multicultural and plurilingual environments or related themes. The Organizing Committee welcomes Dr. Ramos and thanks him for his interest in sharing his knowledge and expertise with English language educators from Honduras. 
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