Collaborative Research: Parent-EMBRACE: An Embodied ITS for Improving Comprehension during fParent-Child Shared Reading

合作研究：亲子拥抱：提高亲子共享阅读理解力的体现ITS

• 批准号: 1917625
• 负责人: Erin Walker
• 金额: $ 22.6万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-15 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1917625&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Parent; EMBRACE; Embodied

Young Latino dual language learners are a growing segment of our society. Unfortunately, many of these children struggle with reading comprehension, and their parents do not always have the tools to support them. That is, the parents are often recent immigrants who are also poor readers in both Spanish and English, and thus read infrequently with their children. When these parents do engage in shared reading, they do not ask the sorts of questions that promote comprehension. This project will build upon the already-developed iPad application, EMBRACE, which helps dual language learners become successful readers of English. EMBRACE will be modified to encourage parent/child shared reading; to train the parents on how to ask questions that enhance comprehension; and to promote reading in both languages since reading skill transfers between languages. Thus, the work will potentially impact society by improving reading skills and educational achievement of both parents and children. The project will contribute to three areas of science. The first contribution is to the study of human-computer interaction. EMBRACE will be modified with the first intelligent tutoring system designed specifically for parent-child use, thus uncovering design principles for the creation of intelligent learning environments that are sensitive to how they are being used and by whom. Second, experimental testing of the new EMBRACE system with families will contribute to understanding the processes that enhance bilingual education and how interventions can positively influence these processes. Third, a component of the testing includes the use of electroencephalography to trace changes in brain activity produced by the intervention. Thus, the research contributes to the cognitive psychology and neuroscience of reading comprehension by using a combination of process data, outcome data, and neurocognitive data from both the children and their parents.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

年轻的拉丁裔双重语言学习者是我们社会的越来越多的部分。不幸的是，这些孩子中的许多人都在阅读理解方面挣扎，他们的父母并不总是有支持他们的工具。也就是说，父母经常是最近的移民，他们也是西班牙语和英语的贫困读者，因此与孩子们很少读书。当这些父母确实参与共享阅读时，他们不会问促进理解的各种问题。该项目将建立在已经开发的iPad应用程序的基础上，它可以帮助双重语言学习者成为英语的成功读者。 拥抱将被修改以鼓励父母/孩子共享阅读；培训父母如何提出提高理解的问题；并以两种语言的方式促进阅读，因为阅读语言之间的技能转移。因此，这项工作将通过提高阅读技能和父母和孩子的教育成就来潜在地影响社会。该项目将为科学的三个领域做出贡献。第一个贡献是对人类计算机相互作用的研究。 Embrace将通过专门为亲子使用而设计的第一个智能辅导系统来修改，从而发现设计原理，以创建智能学习环境，这些学习环境对它们的使用方式和由谁使用。 其次，对家庭的新拥抱系统的实验测试将有助于了解增强双语教育的过程以及如何对这些过程产生积极影响。第三，测试的一个组成部分包括使用脑电图来追踪干预产生的大脑活动的变化。因此，该研究通过使用过程数据，结果数据和来自儿童及其父母的神经认知数据的结合来有助于阅读理解的认知心理学和神经科学。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来支持的。