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Kathleen M. Bailey, a Past President of TESOL (1998-1999), received her M.A.
in Teaching English as a Second Language (1976) and her Ph.D. in Applied
Linguistics (1982) from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Bailey is a
professor of Applied Linguistics at the Monterey Institute of International
Studies in Monterey, California. She was the Director of the TESOL M.A.
Program there for six years and the Director of the Intensive English as a
Second Language Program for three years. In addition, she was instrumental
in developing the Monterey Institute’s Certificate in Language Program
Administration. She is currently the advisor for that program and for the Peace
Corps Masters Internationalist students. She is a recipient of the Allen Griffin
Award for Excellence in Post-secondary Teaching on the Monterey Peninsula. .
Dr. Bailey has worked with language teachers in Japan, Korea, Mexico, Italy,
Spain, Uruguay, Poland, Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Trinidad, Czechoslovakia,
Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, and the United States. From 1992 to 1995
she was a member of the TESOL Executive Board and the USIA English
Teaching Advisory Panel. She is a member of the editorial boards of IRAL,
Language Teaching Research, and the Asian Journal of English Language
Teaching, and the Modern Language Journal, as well as a member of the
Board of Trustees of the TESOL International Research Foundation (TIRF).
She taught in TESOL Summer Institutes at Georgetown, Northern Arizona, San
Francisco State, Michigan State, and Iowa State Universities, as well as St.
Michael’s College, and directed the 1986 program at the University of Hawaii.
In 1996-97 she taught EFL in the English Language Teaching Unit at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Bailey’s research interests include teacher education and development,
second language acquisition, language testing, classroom research, research
methodology, and sociolinguistics. She has co-edited five books: (1) Foreign
Teaching Assistants in U.S. Universities, (2) Second Language Acquisition
Studies: Series in Second Language Research, (3) New Ways in Teaching
Speaking, (4) the proceedings of the 1986 Language Teaching Research
Colloquium, and (5) Voices from the Language Classroom. She is the co-
author (with Dick Allwright) of Focus on the Language Classroom: An
Introduction to Classroom Research for Language Teachers (Cambridge
University Press). Two of her books, Learning About Language Assessment:
Dilemmas, Decisions and Directions and Pursuing Professional
Development: The Self as Source (co-authored with Andy Curtis and David
Nunan), were published by Heinle and Heinle. Her most recent book, Practical
English Language Teaching: Speaking – was published by McGraw Hill. She
has a book on language teacher supervision in press with Cambridge
University Press.
Kathleen M. Bailey, a Past President of TESOL (1998-1999), received her M.A.
in Teaching English as a Second Language (1976) and her Ph.D. in Applied
Linguistics (1982) from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Bailey is a
professor of Applied Linguistics at the Monterey Institute of International
Studies in Monterey, California. She was the Director of the TESOL M.A.
Program there for six years and the Director of the Intensive English as a
Second Language Program for three years. In addition, she was instrumental
in developing the Monterey Institute’s Certificate in Language Program
Administration. She is currently the advisor for that program and for the Peace
Corps Masters Internationalist students. She is a recipient of the Allen Griffin
Award for Excellence in Post-secondary Teaching on the Monterey Peninsula. .
Dr. Bailey has worked with language teachers in Japan, Korea, Mexico, Italy,
Spain, Uruguay, Poland, Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Trinidad, Czechoslovakia,
Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, and the United States. From 1992 to 1995
she was a member of the TESOL Executive Board and the USIA English
Teaching Advisory Panel. She is a member of the editorial boards of IRAL,
Language Teaching Research, and the Asian Journal of English Language
Teaching, and the Modern Language Journal, as well as a member of the
Board of Trustees of the TESOL International Research Foundation (TIRF).
She taught in TESOL Summer Institutes at Georgetown, Northern Arizona, San
Francisco State, Michigan State, and Iowa State Universities, as well as St.
Michael’s College, and directed the 1986 program at the University of Hawaii.
In 1996-97 she taught EFL in the English Language Teaching Unit at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Bailey’s research interests include teacher education and development,
second language acquisition, language testing, classroom research, research
methodology, and sociolinguistics. She has co-edited five books: (1) Foreign
Teaching Assistants in U.S. Universities, (2) Second Language Acquisition
Studies: Series in Second Language Research, (3) New Ways in Teaching
Speaking, (4) the proceedings of the 1986 Language Teaching Research
Colloquium, and (5) Voices from the Language Classroom. She is the co-
author (with Dick Allwright) of Focus on the Language Classroom: An
Introduction to Classroom Research for Language Teachers (Cambridge
University Press). Two of her books, Learning About Language Assessment:
Dilemmas, Decisions and Directions and Pursuing Professional
Development: The Self as Source (co-authored with Andy Curtis and David
Nunan), were published by Heinle and Heinle. Her most recent book, Practical
English Language Teaching: Speaking – was published by McGraw Hill. She
has a book on language teacher supervision in press with Cambridge
University Press.
Dr. Kathleen M. Bailey
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