Robert Bayley, PhD (Stanford University)
Professor,
Linguistics
Office: 204 Sproul Hall
Telephone: 530-752-3209
Keywords: Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics
Office: 204 Sproul Hall
Telephone: 530-752-3209
| Email: | rjbayley | @ | ucdavis.edu |
Keywords: Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics
Languages:
English, Spanish
Dr. Bayley teaches courses in second language acquisition and development, sociolinguistics, and general linguistics. He also serves as a member of the Graduate Group in Education. His research interests are in language variation, language socialization, and second language acquisition. He is co-author of Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language (2001), Language as Cultural Practice: Mexicanos en el norte (2002), and What's Your Sign for PIZZA? An Introduction to Variation in ASL (2003) and co-editor of Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation (1996), Language Socialization in Bilingual and Multilingual Societies (2003), and Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories, Methods, and Applications (2007). He has also published numerous articles in journals such as American Speech, the Journal of Sociolinguistics, the International Review of Applied Linguistics, Language Variation and Change, and TESOL Quarterly. In addition, he serves as editor of the Publications of the American Dialect Society (PADS). His research on bilingual development in Mexican-origin children was supported by grants from the Spencer Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education and by a National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship. Dr. Bayley has also received three Fulbright senior scholar awards to Bolivia and Mexico. He was awarded a guest professorship by Harbin Institute of Technology in China in 2002 and he served as the Fulbright-York Distinguished Chair in Linguistics at York University in Toronto in 2003.
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