Guadalupe Valdés, Ph.D.

Guadalupe Valdés, Ph.D.

Guadalupe Valdés is a professor at Stanford University. She is also a founding partner of Understanding Language, an initiative that focuses attention on the role of language in subject-area learning, with a focus on helping English language learners (ELLs)/emergent bilinguals (EBs). Valdés’ work over a period of 30 years has focused on the English–Spanish bilingualism of U.S. Latinos and on discovering and describing how two languages are developed.