Lynch School of Education

Mariela Páez

assistant professor

Mariela Paez

Email

Campion Hall
Room 126

617.552.4068

   

EDUCATION

Ed.D., M.Ed ., Harvard University
M.A., Tufts University
B.S., Cornell University

EXPERTISE/INTERESTS

Research interests include bilingualism, literacy development, children's early language and literacy learning and early childhood education.

HONORS/PUBLICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Uccelli, P. & Páez, M. (2007).  Narrative and vocabulary development of bilingual children from kindergarten to first grade:  Developmental changes and associations among English and Spanish skills.  Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 38(3), 225-236.

Páez, M., Tabors, P.O., & Lopez, M. (2007).  Dual language and literacy development of Spanish-speaking preschool children.  Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 28(2), 85-102.

Páez, M. & Rinaldi, C. (2006).  Predicting English word reading skills for Spanish-speaking students in first grade.  Topics in Language Disorders, 26(4), 338-350.

Páez, M. (2005).  Effective educational practices for early childhood education.  In Conversations in Excellence 2004 (pp. 36-58).  Washington, DC:  National Catholic Educational Association

Snow, C. E., & Páez, M. (2004). The Head Start classroom as an oral language environment: What should the performance standards be? In Ziegler, E. & Styfco, S. (Eds.), The Head Start Debates (pp. 113-128).  Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing.

Tabors, P. O., Páez, M. M., & López, L. M. (2003). Dual language abilities of Spanish-English bilingual four-year olds: Initial finding from the Early Childhood Study of Language and Literacy Development of Spanish-speaking children. NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 1, 70-91.

Suárez-Orozco, M., & Páez, M. (2002). Latinos in the 21st Century. Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, 14, 49-76.

Suárez-Orozco, M., & Páez, M. (Eds.) (2002). Latinos: Remaking America. University of California Press and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University: Berkeley, CA.