Alison Louise Bailey

About

Welcome to UCLA's Language and Literacy Research Group! If you are a researcher, educator, policy maker, or prospective student interested in issues of language and literacy development, we encourage you to explore the current research being conducted by our students and faculty advisor, as well as our upcoming professional events and activities.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Psychology
• Mathematics education
• Developmental psychology
• Social psychology
• Pedagogy

Selected publications

• An investigation of the validity of a speaking assessment for adolescent English language learners

  Language Testing · 2020 · 17 citations

  Given the increasing emphasis of communicative competence in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts and the lack of validation research on speaking assessments for adolescent EFL learners, in the current study we examined the validity of the TOEFL Junior® speaking test, a relatively new speaking assessment developed by Educational Testing Service. We utilized Messick’s integrative view of construct validity (1996) and Kane’s interpretation argument framework (Kane, 2013), and focused on tw…

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• Unpacking the language demands in academic content and English language proficiency standards for English learners

  International Multilingual Research Journal · 2022 · 16 citations

  In U.S. K-12 public schools, educational policy and practice for English learner (EL) students center around two sets of academic standards: English language proficiency (ELP) standards and content standards such as in English language arts and mathematics. This study examined the types of language demands manifested in those standards in Grade 5. Additionally, we investigated perceptions of both general education and ESL teachers about the language demands in the standards and the challenges in…

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• Young Children’s Language Attitudes with Implications for Identity in a US Dual-Language Immersion Classroom

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022-07-22 · 15 citations

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  This chapter focuses on young students' attitudes towards the partner languages in dual-language immersion (DLI) programmes, as well as attitudes towards the speakers of these languages with implications for students' identities as bilingual/biliterate learners in this educational context. The chapter uses example findings with primary school students (5–8 year olds) acquiring Spanish and English in a US DLI programme who are part of a multi-year research and evaluation project. Students are com…

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• Long-term English Learners: Untangling Language Acquisition and Learning Disabilities

  Contemporary School Psychology · 2022-07-20 · 10 citations

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  Abstract Students who have remained classified as English Learners (ELs) for more than six years are often labeled “Long-term English Learners” (LTELs). The present study examined the English Language Development (ELD) test scores and demographic information in a group of 560 students identified as LTELs. Despite assumptions that these students are still learning English, results showed many students who are labeled LTELs exhibited advanced English skills, especially on measures of expressive an…

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• Translanguaging: Conceptual underpinnings of equity-oriented instructional and assessment practices with adolescent multilingual learners

  Linguistics and Education · 2025-03-30 · 8 citations

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  The empirical papers in this Special Issue operationalize translanguaging in the context of diverse instructional and assessment practices with adolescent multilingual students. The different conceptualizations that guide their research questions, analyses and interpretations are described and connections between them and the current literature on translanguaging and other relevant fields are made. Additional aspects of the translanguaging construct as it relates to both equitable educational pr…

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Frequent coauthors

• Nettie Boivin

  36 shared

• Valentina Carbonara

  University for Foreigners of Siena

  36 shared

• Junko Matsuzaki Carreira

  Tokyo Keizai University

  36 shared

• Chiou-hui Chou

  National Tsing Hua University

  36 shared

• Yuko Goto Butler

  36 shared

• Becky H. Huang

  The Ohio State University

  16 shared

• Frances A. Butler

  15 shared

• Anna V. Osipova

  California State University Los Angeles

  13 shared

Awards & honors

• Bobbie and Mark Greenfield Distinguished Faculty Award (UCLA…
• Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellow
• The Harold and Lois Haytin Award (UCLA)
• Ann C. Rosenfield Distinguished Community Partnership Prize,…
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Speech and Hearing Scienc…

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