Robert E. Bahruth, Ph.D.

Mini-biography

Robert Bahruth is a Professor of Teacher Education at Boise State University, specializing in Literacy, Bilingual Education and Applied Linguistics.   

He is a certified teacher of English for New Jersey and Texas, and holds ESL and bilingual education endorsements for the state of Texas. He has held a number of board positions, including: Simile Journal: Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education (University of Toronto, Canada); Annual Editions: ESL (Dushkin/McGraw Hill Publishers); Albertson College of Idaho President’s Diversity Board; and International Journal of Learning (RMIT University, Australia). He has been an invited guest lecturer at Harvard University during the spring semester of 1996; Universidad de la Habana, Cuba; San Carlos National University, Guatemala; Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México; Seminar Kibbutzim Teachers’ College in Tel Aviv, Israel; and Sun Yat sen National University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He has also been a presenter at numerous national and international conferences. He was honored with the “Outstanding Faculty Award 1997 -98” by the Associated Students of Boise State University.  He received the Top Ten Scholars Award 2002 at Boise State University.

Dr. Bahruth is a fluent speaker of Spanish who learned the language while living and working for eight years in Latin America.  He has taught English as a Second Language since 1974.  While teaching in a bilingual 5th grade in Texas, he employed a whole language approach with his students.  Literacy con Cariño is their success story (Heinemann Educational Books 1991).  A new edition of Literacy con Cariño was released in 1998 and includes a foreword by Paulo Freire & Donaldo Macedo.  Robert holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Bilingual Education from The University of Texas at Austin.  While at UT, he received the George I. Sanchez Endowed Presidential Scholarship for significant contributions to the field of minority education.