Author: abailey@gseis.ucla.edu

Our research group is pleased to welcome a new PhD student, Juno Yingzhi Dong and a master student Laura Machado. We’re wishing you all the best in the school year!

Members of the Language and Literacy Research Group will be presenting their work at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Francisco, California.

Anahit Pogossian, & Alison Bailey will present “Parental Reasoning for Child Enrollment in Armenian Dual Language Immersion Programs” in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 18, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Marriott Marquis San Francisco, Floor: Fourth Level, Yerba.

Alison Bailey, Alejandra Martin, Anahit Pogossian, Marlen Quintero Perez and others will present “Early Literacy and Oral Language Ties: Extending the range of human-computer interface for early assessment” on Sunday, April 19, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Moscone Center, Floor: South Building, Exhibition Level, Moscone Hall A.

Alison Bailey, Yawen Yu, Rashmita Mistry, Alejandra Martin, & Kate Griffin will present “A Longitudinal, Cohort Analysis of the Academic Performance of Spanish-English Dual Immersion Elementary Students” on Monday, April 20, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Floor: Grand Ballroom Level, Grand Ballroom B.

Congratulations to this year’s graduates! Cecilia Valdes and Jenny Xin Wen received their Master’s degrees with the Class of 2019. Eve Ryan, Anne Blackstock-Bernstein, and Laura Rhinehart successfully defended their dissertations and received their PhDs. Congratulations, all!

Members of the Language and Literacy Research Group will be presenting their work at the annual meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) in Baltimore, MD, and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Toronto, Canada.

At SRCD, Alison Bailey along with co-authors Taylor Hazelbaker, Katherine Griffin, and Rashmita Mistry will present the poster, “Racial and Ethnic Identification and Awareness in Dual-Language Settings: The Role of Classroom Context” on Friday, March 22, at 9:45 to 11:00am, in the Baltimore Convention Center, Level 1, Exhibit Hall B.

Anne Blackstock-Bernstein will present her poster, “Teacher and Parent Ratings of Shyness and Effortful Control in Latinx Children in Head Start” on Saturday, March 23, at 9:45 to 11:00am, in the Baltimore Convention Center, Level 1, Exhibit Hall B.

At AERA, Anne Blackstock-Bernstein will present “Differences in Individual Children’s Language Experiences in Head Start Classrooms” in the session Early Childhood Language and Literacy on Saturday, April 6th, at 12:20 to 1:50pm, in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 202D.

Alison Bailey and Margaret Heritage will present “The Promise of Learning Progressions for the Integration of Science and Language Assessment” in the symposium Formative Assessment and Learning Progression Approaches to Assessing Science and Language Learning of English Learners on Tuesday, April 9, at 10:25 to 11:55am, in the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Convention Level, Salon B.

Gary Yeung, Alison Bailey, Amber Afshan, Marlen Quintero Perez, and Alejandra Martin will present their poster “Toward the Development of Personalized Learning Companion Robots for Early Speech and Language Assessment” on Tuesday, April 9, at 2:15 to 3:45pm, in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 300 Level, Hall C.

 

Anne Blackstock-Bernstein was recently awarded two grants to conduct her dissertation research. The Language Learning Dissertation Grant and The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Grant-in-Aid are helping to cover her recruitment and data collection costs.

Laura Rhinehart was also awarded the George Kneller Prize from the Department of Education. This prize is awarded annually to continuing graduate students whose work, among other criteria, may question traditional canon or display investment in teacher preparation.

Congratulations, Anne and Laura!

Members of the Language and Literacy Research Group will be presenting their work in April 2018 at the annual meetings of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) and American Educational Research Association (AERA) in New York City.

At NCME, Alison Bailey and Richard Duran will present “Language in Practice as a Mediator of Valid Interpretations of Information Generated by Classroom Assessments among Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students” on Saturday, April 14th at 12:25-1:55pm in the Westin New York Times Square.

At AERA, Louise Wilkinson & Alison Bailey will present, “Commentary: How Language and Literacy Count for Teaching Mathematics in Schools, Especially for EL Students” in the event: Teaching and Learning Mathematics: How Language and Literacy Count for English Learner Students on Friday, April 13th at 2:15-3:45pm in the Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Seventh Floor, Room 7.01.

Janet Cerda and Alison Bailey will present ” ‘Social Justice Is Access and Discussion’: Contexts for Regulatory Learning in a Dual-Language Classroom” in the event, Critical Conversations: Social Justice Practices for Overcoming Psychological Barriers in K-12 Settings on Monday, April 16th, at 10:35am-12:05pm in the  Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Fifth Floor, Room 5.02.

 

Eve Ryan will be presenting her work at the annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) in Chicago. She presents her paper, “When parents paint a picture of the out-of-school language support for elementary students in a bilingual program” on Sunday, March 25th at 9:10am in the Sheraton Grand Chicago, Illinois Boardroom.

Our research group is pleased to welcome two new PhD students, Alejandra Martin and Veronica Pedroza. We’re wishing you all the best in the school year!

Our research group recently said goodbye to Cindy Lee, Rak Qijung Yang, and Carla Kekejian, who received their Master’s degrees earlier this month. Best of luck to the three of you in your post-UCLA endeavors!

Congratulations to Cindy Lee, who recently competed as a finalist in UCLA’s Grad Slam competition, in which student research is awarded based on 3-minute presentations. The approach demands that students communicate their research concisely and effectively to a wide audience. Cindy advanced through all preliminary rounds by impressing audiences with her presentation entitled English Learners and Oral Language Anxiety: An Approach Using Lego® StoryStarter. Congratulations, Cindy!