Literacy, Education, and Language Processing: Special Sessions at the Human Sentence Processing 2023 Conference

识字、教育和语言处理：2023 年人类句子处理会议的特别会议

• 批准号: 2216976
• 负责人: Scott Fraundorf
• 金额: $ 4.16万
• 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: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-15 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2216976&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Literacy; Education; Language; Processing; Special

Language is vital in everyday life. The field of psycholinguistics seeks to understand the cognitive mechanisms of language comprehension and production. It examines how working memory, attention, world knowledge, and learning systems affect language use. But, much research in this field has relied on literate, university-educated samples. Scientific theories have not been tested across the full range of language and literacy skills. This gap makes it harder for educators to use psycholinguistic research to improve language-related education. There is a clear need to unite research and researchers in psycholinguistics with those in education and literacy. This project supports a special session at the 2023 Annual Conference on Human Sentence processing. The session highlights connections between psycholinguistics, educational psychology, and educational technology. The session will help describe how language processing is shaped by formal education and literacy. It will also characterize how we can use our knowledge of human language processing in education.This special conference session is titled "Literacy, Education, and Language Processing." It will be held at the 2023 Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing at the University of Pittsburgh. The HSP conference is formerly known as the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. It has been the top psycholinguistics conference in North America for decades. About 400 people attend the three-day conference. The conference includes about 35 oral and 150 poster presentations selected from over 300 abstracts. As part of the special session, six invited speakers will discuss the interface of psycholinguistics with literacy and education. They will talk about (1) how formal education and literacy may alter language processing, (2) how students experiencing a nonstandard dialect at home may be disadvantaged by the burden of adapting to the language of formal education, and (3) how educational technology can quantify language experience and attainment. The project helps train junior scientists with discounted registration, need-based travel stipends, and junior researcher awards. The project broadens participation in the field by inviting minority-serving institutions to a livestream of the special session talks.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.

语言在日常生活中至关重要。心理语言学领域致力于理解语言理解和产生的认知机制。它研究工作记忆、注意力、世界知识和学习系统如何影响语言使用。但是，该领域的许多研究都依赖于受过大学教育的受过文化训练的样本。科学理论尚未在所有语言和读写技能方面进行测试。这种差距使得教育工作者更难利用心理语言学研究来改善与语言相关的教育。显然需要将心理语言学领域的研究和研究人员与教育和识字领域的研究人员和研究人员结合起来。该项目支持 2023 年人类句子处理年会的特别会议。本次会议强调了心理语言学、教育心理学和教育技术之间的联系。该会议将帮助描述正规教育和读写能力如何塑造语言处理。它还将描述我们如何在教育中使用人类语言处理的知识。本次特别会议的标题是“读写能力、教育和语言处理”。它将在匹兹堡大学举行的 2023 年人类句子处理年会上举行。 HSP 会议以前称为 CUNY 句子处理会议。几十年来，它一直是北美顶级的心理语言学会议。大约400人参加了为期三天的会议。会议包括从 300 多份摘要中选出的约 35 个口头报告和 150 个海报报告。作为特别会议的一部分，六位受邀演讲者将讨论心理语言学与识字和教育的界面。他们将讨论（1）正规教育和读写能力如何改变语言处理，（2）在家中使用非标准方言的学生可能会因适应正规教育语言的负担而处于不利地位，以及（3）教育技术如何可以量化语言经验和成就。该项目通过折扣注册、基于需求的旅行津贴和初级研究员奖励来帮助培训初级科学家。该项目通过邀请少数族裔服务机构参加特别会议会谈的直播来扩大该领域的参与。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。