Professor Alison Bailey, Ph.D.
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
abailey@gseis.ucla.edu
Participants: Intermediate classrooms
Keywords: Dual Language Education, Linguistic Development
Teachers in the Learning in Two Languages (LTL) Program at the UCLA Lab School in conjunction with UCLA researchers have conducted a fully comprehensive research and development initiative on the LTL program to describe, evaluate and improve the program over the past 4 years. The project to critically examine the linguistic, academic, cognitive, social and cultural factors that the program hopes to foster in students. Teacher and student classroom interactions were regularly observed, and students’ language and academic skills, as well as their social and cognitive perspectives were regularly measured using assessments, observations and interviews. Other stakeholders in the program were formatively surveyed for their perspectives on the LTL program (including program teachers, other Lab School teachers and staff, parents of program children and parents with children throughout the school).