Ana Taboada Barber, Ph.D.
Ana Taboada Barber, Ph.D., Associate Professor, George Mason University,
4400 University Boulevard, Fairfax, VA 22030
Dr. Taboada Barber's research focuses on the examination of classroom
contexts that support reading engagement for monolingual and second language
learners. She is specifically interested in the psychology of literacy
from a cognitive and motivational perspective. In the past, she worked on
the development of the modeling of reading engagement as it applies to all
learners (e.g., native-speakers
of English and second language learners) in
the late elementary grades. She is currently working on the development of
frameworks within the engagement model as they apply to second language
learners. Her research has been published in the Journal of Educational
Psychology, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Journal
of Literacy Research, Journal of Experimental Education, Instructional
Science, Journal of Educational Research, and Lectura y Vida: Latin American Journal of the International Reading Association. She
obtained her bachelor's degree in school psychology in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
a master's degree in educational psychology at Temple University, and
her doctoral degree from the University of Maryland. She was also a classroom
teacher in bilingual schools in Buenos Aires before coming to the United
States as a Fulbright scholar.