Dr. Kathleen M.
Bailey
Graduate School in Language
and Educational Linguistics
Monterey Institute of International Studies
Kathleen M. Bailey, a Past President of TESOL (1998-1999),
received her M.A. in TESL (1976) and her Ph.D. in Applied
Linguistics (1982) from the University of California, Los Angeles.
She 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 is the advisor to students enrolled in the Monterey Institute’s Certificate in Language Program Administration as well as the Peace Corps Masters Internationalist students.
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, and research methodology. She has co-edited six 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; (5) Voices from the Language Classroom; and (6) Research on English as a Second Language in U.S. Community Colleges (with Maricel Santos). 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 books are Practical English Language Teaching: Speaking (published by McGraw Hill), Language Teacher Supervision (Cambridge University Press), and Exploring Second Language Classroom Research (co-authored with David Nunan and published by Heinle/Cengage). Dr. Bailey is the recipient of the James E. Alatis Award for Service to TESOL and a two-time recipient of the Allen Griffin Award for Excellence in Post-secondary Teaching on the Monterey Peninsula.
