About CREATE 
Investigators
The National Center for Research on the Educational
Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners
A research program funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
CREATE Investigators>
Sylvia Linan-Thompson
Associate Professor and Director
Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts at the University of Texas at Austin
Associate Director
CREATE
Co-Principal Investigator
Adaptations of Peer-Assisted Learning for English Language Learners: Application to Middle-School Social Studies Classes
Sylvia Linan-Thompson, Ph.D., is Associate
Professor, Fellow in the Mollie V. Davis Professorship in Learning Disabilities, and director of the Vaughn Gross Center of Reading and
Language Arts at The
University of Texas, Austin. She is associate director of CREATE, examining the effect of instructional
practices that enhance vocabulary and comprehension for middle school English
language learners in content areas. Dr. Linan-Thompson is currently co-principal
investigator of studies examining the oral language and literacy development in English
and Spanish of Spanish speaking children, the efficacy of a 3-tiered model of reading
intervention in general education classrooms and in bilingual classrooms. She has
developed and examined reading interventions for struggling readers who are
monolingual English speakers, English language learners, and bilingual students
acquiring Spanish literacy. She has authored articles, chapters and a book on these
topics and has developed instructional guides.
| Featured Presentations |
Dr. Linan-Thompson presented Social Studies Instruction at the 2007 CREATE Conference. |