Andrés Ramírez
“I work diligently for the day when the accomplishments of Latinos and other linguistic groups in the United States are so vast and quotidian that celebrating them would almost seem redundant and unnecessary. The good that is intrinsic part of the ordinary fabric of a society is not often celebrated boisterously, it is simply enjoyed, cherished, and built upon for the benefit of all future generations”
Andrés Ramírez
Dr. Andrés Ramírez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Florida Atlantic University, where he focuses on expanding multilingual learners’ access to powerful academic knowledge through equitable, language-focused pedagogy.Dr. Andrés Ramírez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Florida Atlantic University, where he focuses on expanding multilingual learners’ access to powerful academic knowledge through equitable, language-focused pedagogy. His research examines how economic, cultural, and linguistic factors shape the academic literacy development of culturally and linguistically diverse students in the United States, with particular attention to Latin Emergent to Advanced Bilingual (EAB) learners.
Dr. Ramírez is the developer of Genre Translanguaging, a multilingual instructional framework that integrates Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), genre-based pedagogy, and translanguaging. His work investigates how explicit language instruction, classroom discourse, and well-designed curricular structures can reduce frustration and open pathways for meaningful learning among multilingual students. He also studies how U.S. educational policies and pedagogical models are recontextualized in Latin American contexts, extending the relevance of his work to international educational communities.
His scholarship combines poststructural materialism, critical discourse studies, Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), and critical pedagogy to illuminate how language and power interact in classrooms. He conducts linguistic analyses of educational texts, studies classroom interaction, and collaborates with teachers to design research-based practices that foster academic language growth and literacy success for multilingual learners.
Dr. Ramírez teaches courses in TESOL education, curriculum theory, systemic functional linguistics, bilingual education, and critical discourse analysis. He brings extensive experience in ESL and teacher education from both his native Colombia and the United States. He has shared his work with educators and researchers across the world, including Australia, Indonesia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, China, Israel, Canada, and the United States.
Beyond his academic work, Dr. Ramírez enjoys playing and coaching soccer, making music, and learning alongside his two daughters in their bilingual and bicultural home environment.
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Andres Ramirez
Associate Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Office Location: ED 47 - 346
Campus: Boca