The language demands of school : putting academic English to the test /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bailey, Alison L.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
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.
Online Access:	Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Table of Contents:

Introduction: teaching and assessing students learning English in school / Alison L. Bailey
ELLs and standardized assessments: the interaction between language proficiency and performance on standardized tests / Frances A. Butler, Robin Stevens, and Martha Castellon
Policy needs: what federal and state governments need from language research / Jan Mayer
A conceptual framework of academic English language for broad application to education / Alison L. Bailey and Frances A. Butler
Further specifying the language demands of school / Alison L. Bailey, Frances A. Butler, Robin Stevens, and Carol Lord
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
Academic English: a view from the classroom / Margaret Heritage, Norma Silva, and Mary Pierce
A research agenda for the future of English language development / Alison L. Bailey.