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AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics)

Yu, Y., & Bailey, A. (2020, March) Motivation and Identity of Chinese Heritage Language Learners in a Beginning Level Chinese Language Classroom.

Ryan, E. (2018, March). When parents paint a picture of the out-of-school language support for elementary students in a bilingual program. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Chicago, IL.

Bailey, A., & Blackstock‐Bernstein, A. (2015, March). Examining Mathematical Strategies and Explanations of English Learner and English Proficient Students. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Toronto, CA.

Blackstock-Bernstein, A. & Bailey, A.L. (2014, March). At the Intersection of Math and Language: Examining Elementary-age Children’s Oral and Written Language Use in Mathematical Explanations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Portland, OR.

AERA (American Educational Research Association)

Alison L.  Bailey will participate as a Discussant in the Computational Thinking, Languages, and Literacies symposium session on Sun, April 24, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDT (Mon, April 25, 5:30 to 7:00am CST), Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: North Building, Lobby Level, Marriott Grand Ballroom 6.

Alison L.  Bailey, Mikyung Kim Wolf, Anahit Pogossian and Laura Ballard will present The Pragmatic Arrangements of ELP Standards and Assessments: Content Analyses and Teacher Perceptions on Mon, April 25, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDT (2:30 to 4:00pm PDT), Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 3rd Level, Seaport Tower, Cortez Hill C.

Eve Ryan, Alison L.  Bailey, Michelle Lynn Luna and Clemence Darriet will present “Progression of French Oral Language in a U.S. Dual-Immersion Program: Descriptive and Bayesian Approaches” on Sun, April 24, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT), San Diego Convention Center, Floor: Upper Level, Sails Pavillion.

Mikyung Kim Wolf, Hanwook (Henry) Yoo, Laura Ballard, Florencia Tolentino and Alison L. Bailey will present Understanding the Relationship Between English Language Proficiency and Academic Performance of English Learners on Mon, April 25, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDT (Tue, April 26, 5:30 to 7:00am CST), Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 3rd Level, Seaport Tower, Cortez Hill C.

Janet Cerda and Clemence Darriet will present The Road to Dynamic Multilingualism: A 10-Year Historical Case Study of a Community School’s Development on Sat, April 23, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT (Sun, April 24, 2:30 to 4:00am CST), San Diego Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B.

Clemence Darriet and Janet Cerda will present Translanguaging and Instruction in a Growing Middle/High School Dual-Language Program on Mon, April 25, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT (Tue, April 26, 2:30 to 4:00am CST), Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: North Building, Lobby Level, Marriott Grand Ballroom 6.

Yawen Yu, Alison L.  Bailey and Rashmita Mistry will present “Academic Performance of First-Graders in a Dual Language Immersion Program: Roles of Self-Concept and Gender” on Mon, April 12, 4:30 to 6:00pm EDT at Identity Development in Bilingual and Dual-Language Settings Paper Session.

Wolf, M.K, Bailey, A.L., Ballard, L., Wang, Y. & Pogossian, A. (April, 2021).  Understanding the Language Demands in Academic Content and English Language Proficiency Standards for English Learners.

Mikyung Kim,  Alison L. Bailey, Laura Ballard, Yuan Wang & Anahit Pogossian “Understanding the Language Demands in Academic Content and English Language Proficiency Standards for English Learners” on Thu, April 8, 2:00 to 3:00pm EDT at Curriculum and Instruction Roundtable session.

Clémence Darriet and Lucrecia Santibañez “Predicting Dual Language Program Emergence in Los Angeles County” on Fri, April 9, 10:40am to 12:10pm EDT at Academic Achievement and Educational Opportunities of Emergent Bilinguals Research Paper and Symposium Sessions.

Bailey, A., Yu, Y., Mistry, R., Martin, A., & Griffin, K. A. (2020, April) Longitudinal, Cohort Analysis of the Academic Performance of Spanish-English Dual Immersion Elementary Students. 

Bailey, A., Martin, A., Pogossian, A., Quintero Perez, M., and others. (2020, April) Early Literacy and Oral Language Ties: Extending the range of human-computer interface for early assessment.

Pogossian, A., & Bailey, A. (2020, April) Parental Reasoning for Child Enrollment in Armenian Dual Language Immersion Programs in Los Angeles. T

Wilkinson, L. & Bailey, A. L. (2018, April). Commentary: How Language and Literacy Count for Teaching Mathematics in Schools, Especially for EL Students. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Cerda, J. & Bailey, A. L. (2018, April). ‘Social Justice Is Access and Discussion’: Contexts for Regulatory Learning in a Dual-Language Classroom” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Blackstock-Bernstein, A., Woodbridge, A., Pitsoulakis, D., & Bailey, A. L. (2017, May). Cross-Sectional Comparisons of Elementary Students’ Oral and Written Explanations about Academic and Non-Academic Tasks Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

Blackstock-Bernstein, A., & Bailey, A. L. (2017, April). How Elementary Students Use Gesture to Enhance Verbal Meaning-Making in Procedural Mathematics Explanations Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

Bailey, A. L., Rivera-Torres, K., Blackstock-Bernstein, A., Pitsoulakis, D., Ryan, E., Linquanti, R., & Haas, E. (2016, April). Improving the home language survey questions: Using parent input to refine the measurement of constructs. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.

Blackstock-Bernstein, A., Woodbridge, A., Chang, S., & Bailey, A. L. (2016, April). Relating mathematical understanding to oral language proficiency: Elementary teachers’ ratings of student mathematical explanations. Roundtable discussion at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C.

Pitsoulakis, D. & Bailey, A. (2016, April). Extending Learning Progressions to Self-Assessment: Students Finding “Best Fit” for Learning and Instruction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C.

Rivera-Torres, K., Ryan, È., & Pitsoulakis, D. (2016, April). Examining students’ understanding of stamina in math oral explanations using a learning progression-based self-assessment. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C.

Bailey, A., Chang, S., Blackstock‐Bernstein, A., Ryan, E., Pitsoulakis, D. (2015, April). Elementary Students Justifying Explanations and Reasoning with Evidence in Academic Tasks and Non‐academic Routines. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Chanjavanakul, N. (2015, April). Bilingual instruction in middle school science classrooms: A privilege or a disadvantage? Roundtable session presented at American Educational Research Association 2015 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Bailey, A.L., Reynolds Kelly, K., & Blackstock-Bernstein, A. (2014, April). Empirical Study of Elementary Student Explanations: Generating Dynamic Language Learning Progressions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.

SRCD (Society for Research in Child Development)

Zwass, R., Rivera-Torres, K., Bailey, A. L., & Mistry, R. (2017, April). ‘Sociolinguistic Cognition’ Development in Dual-Language Immersion and English-Medium Programs: Complementary Narrative Approaches. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Austin, TX.

Bailey, A., Griffin, K., Rivera-Torres, K., Mistry, R. (2015, March). Executive functioning and metalinguistic awareness: Initial phases of a longitudinal study of the effects of early dual-immersion. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Bailey, A. Zwass, R., Rivera-Torres, K., Mistry, R. (2015, March). Young children’s development of “sociolinguistic cognition” about different languages and their speakers. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Reynolds Kelly, K., Bailey, A. L., Blackstock-Bernstein, A., & Heritage, M. (2013, April). Similarities, Differences, and Shifts in Elementary-Age Children’s Use of Social and Academic Registers in Speech and Writing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Seattle, WA.

UCLA Research and Inquiry Conference

Blackstock-Bernstein, A., Woodbridge, A., Pitsoulakis, D., & Bailey, A. (2016, May). Elementary Students’ Written Explanations: Comparisons across Modalities and Topics. Poster presented at the Annual UCLA GSE&IS Research and Inquiry Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

Blackstock-Bernstein, A. & Bailey, A. (2016, May). Gesture Use during Elementary Students’ Mathematical Explanations. Poster presented at the Annual UCLA GSE&IS Research and Inquiry Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

Blackstock-Bernstein, A., Ryan, E., & Bailey, A. (2016, May). Examining the development of language features in elementary students’ written explanations. Poster presented at the Annual UCLA GSE&IS Research and Inquiry Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

Rivera-Torres, K., Bailey, A. L. (2016, May). Evaluating the complexity of the SAT: Students’ descriptions and observations of linguistic challenges on the SAT. Poster presented at the Annual UCLA GSE&IS Research & Inquiry Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

Zwass, R., Rivera-Torres, K., & Bailey, A. L. (2016, May). Developing an age appropriate narrative measure of young children’s attitudes about different languages and speakers. Poster presented at the Annual UCLA GSE&IS Research & Inquiry Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

Blackstock-Bernstein, A. (2015, May). The Pragmatic Demands of Mathematics: Elementary School Students’ Oral Language Use in Mathematical Explanations. Paper presented at the Annual UCLA GSE&IS Research and Inquiry Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

Chanjavanakul, N. (2014, June). Medium of instruction in middle school Science classroom. Poster session presented at the Annual UCLA GSE&IS Research and Inquiry Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

WPA (Western Psychological Association)

Zwass, R., Rivera-Torres, K., Bailey, A. L. (2016, April). Developing an age-appropriate narrative measure of young children’s sociolinguistic cognition. Paper presented as part of a symposium: Employing narrative techniques to investigate socio-cultural processes and cognitive-linguistic outcomes in young children at the Western Psychological Association, Long Beach, CA.

Other organizations

J. Meng, Y. Wang & X. Zhang (2023, Apr.) The use of word-initial sibilants by preschool teachers and Mandarin heritage children Individual paper, presented at 2023 Chinese Language Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.

Asson, S., Darriet, C. (2023, March). Dual Language Immersion Programs and Diversity: Issues of Access and Language Inclusivity. Annual Meeting of the Association for Education Finance & Policy, Denver CO.

Zamora, E., Castellon, F., & Kasari, C., (2022, May 11-14). En Español Se Siente Mas Bonito: Parent Perspectives of Bilingual Development & Service Support for Autistic Children. [Conference Presentation]. International Society for Autism Research Conference, Austin, TX, United States. https://www.autism-insar.org/page/INSAR2022Archives

Bailey, A. L., & Duran, R. (2018, April). Language in Practice as a Mediator of Valid Interpretations of Information Generated by Classroom Assessments among Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students. Paper presented at the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), New York, NY.

Luna, M. (2019, October). “Using Predictive Cues to Learn Prepositions from Storybooks”. Poster presented at the 11th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society.

Woodbridge, A. (2015, May). Perspective taking and writing as moderated by second language exposure. Poster presented at the Symposium on Cognition and Language Development, Irvine, California.