David G.Leo
Professor, College of Education
Chair, Department of Special Services
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Faculty Center 235
6300 Ocean Dr.
Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5818
(361) 825-2346
david.leo@tamucc.edu
David G. Leo earned the B.A. and M.A. degrees in Spanish from Pan American University-Edinburg. He earned the Ed.D. degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Bilingual Education from the University of Houston. For the past twenty-five years he has been teaching preservice and inservice teachers in the College's Bilingual-Bicultural Education and ESL Program. He has been chair of the Department of Special Services since 1996.
His recent scholarly contributions follow. He co-published "Two languages in the home, community, and school: A child's right to heritage language" in the International Journal of Children's Rights & Education. He presented Bilingual education TExES test: Conocimiento y estrategias at the Rio Grande Valley Texas Association for Bilingual Education 17th Annual Bilingual/ESL Education Conference and co-presented Brain compatible dual language schools at the 6th Annual CEDER Conference. In addition, he co-presented The brain compatible dual language classroom at the 36th Annual Texas Association for Bilingual Education Conference. He also co-presented Brain compatible dual language education for at-risk English language learners at 20th Annual National Youth-At-Risk Conference, and he co-presented Teaching common book patterns to English language learners and reap multiple benefits at the 38th Annual International Bilingual/Multicultural Education Conference.
Courses taught
BIEM 4344 Educational Psychology and the Bilingual Child
BIEM 4349 Linguistics for Bilingual Teachers
BIEM 4360 Introduction to Bilingualism
BIEM 5343 Foundations in Bilingual Education
BIEM 5345 Developmental Linguistics
BIEM 5349 Contrastive Analysis.