The language demands of school
Subtitle: putting academic English to the test
By: edited by Alison L. Bailey
Contributors: Bailey, Alison L
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: English language -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States; English language -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States; Language arts -- United States -- Evaluation; Language arts -- Standards -- United States; Educational tests and measurements -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: teaching and assessing students learning English in school / Alison L. Bailey; title: ELLs and standardized assessments: the interaction between language proficiency and performance on standardized tests / Frances A. Butler, Robin Stevens, and Martha Castellon; title: Policy needs: what federal and state governments need from language research / Jan Mayer; title: A conceptual framework of academic English language for broad application to education / Alison L. Bailey and Frances A. Butler; title: Further specifying the language demands of school / Alison L. Bailey, Frances A. Butler, Robin Stevens, and Carol Lord; title: Making choices in academic English language testing: evidence from the evolution of test specifications / Fred Davidson, Jung Tae Kim, Hyeong-Jong Lee, Jinshu Li, and Alexis A. López; title: Academic English: a view from the classroom / Margaret Heritage, Norma Silva, and Mary Pierce; title: A research agenda for the future of English language development / Alison L. Bailey