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Alison L. Bailey
Professor of Education
Professor of Education Alison L. Bailey's work focuses on children's language and literacy development, known formally as developmental psycholinguistics. Her body of work includes studying how parents influence children's verbal communication skills, developing tools for teachers to help students at risk for reading difficulties, and working to improve tests and assessments for students |
learning English as a second language.
Professor Bailey's work began with an exploration of how children learn language at home through their relationship with parents and other family members, and later came to include the more formal setting of school. With her work growing out of a close examination of how social environment and social understanding determine children’s language development, she also studies early literacy development and its relationship to oral language skills; how children who learn English as a second language perform academically; and how academic English - the language of the classroom - is evaluated and taught.
Prior to joining UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies faculty in 1997, Professor Bailey was a postdoctoral fellow at Arizona State University and served as an instructor in both the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University, and in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts. She holds an Ed.D. and an Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University.
More information on Professor Bailey's work can be found under Language and Literacy. Email: ABailey@gseis.ucla.edu.
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