The Language Demands of School: Putting Academic English to the Test Book

Contents

Foreword by Charlene Rivera....................ix
Preface....................xiii
Acknowledgments....................xvii
List of Abbreviations....................xx
ONE Introduction: Teaching and Assessing Students Learning English in School-Alison L. Bailey....................1
TWO ELLs and Standardized Assessments: The Interaction between Language Proficiency and Performance on Standardized Tests-Frances A. Butler, Robin Stevens, and Martha Castellon....................27
THREE Policy Needs: What Federal and State Governments Need from Language Research-Jan Mayer....................50
FOUR A Conceptual Framework of Academic English Language for Broad Application to Education-Alison L. Bailey and Frances A. Butler....................68
FIVE Further Specifying the Language Demands of School-Alison L. Bailey, Frances A. Butler, Robin Stevens, and Carol Lord....................103
SIX 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....................157
SEVEN Academic English: A View from the Classroom-Margaret Heritage, Norma Silva, and Mary Pierce....................171
EIGHT A Research Agenda for the Future of English Language Development-Alison L. Bailey....................211
List of Contributors....................217
Index....................221