Bilingual e-Book Platform for Early Childhood Literacy Development and Intrafamiliar Communication

用于幼儿读写能力发展和内部交流的双语电子书平台

• 批准号: 9347817
• 负责人: WILLIAM Z TAN
• 金额: $ 21.66万
• 依托单位: TRANSCENDENT INTERNATIONAL, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-13 至 2018-03-12
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9347817
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Acculturation; Address; Adult; Age; Caregivers; Child; Child Development; Child Language; Code; Collaborations; Communication; Community Health Aides; Competence; Comprehension; Computational Linguistics; Consumption; Development; Developmental Process; Ecosystem; Education; Educational workshop; Emotional; English Learner; Evaluation; Exposure to; Face; Family; Feedback; Flowers; Foundations; Home environment; Home visitation; Household; Income; Industry; Influentials; Interpersonal Relations; Intervention; Interview; Language; Language Development; Librarians; Life; Linguistics; Literature; Methodology; Methods; Minority; Motivation; Names; Occupations; Parents; Participant; Pattern; Phase; Process; Production; Publications; Publishing; Reader; Reading; Reporting; Research; Sesame - dietary; Speech; Speed; Standardization; System; Techniques; Text; Time; Touch sensation; Translating; United States; Veterans; Visit; base; bilingualism; commercialization; communication behavior; cost effective; design; digital; early childhood; electronic book; experience; innovation; insight; interactive feedback; intergenerational; literacy; lower income families; minority children; novel; parent-child communication; pedagogy; product development; programs; prototype; skills; success; virtual

PROJECT SUMMARY The number and quality of utterances a child is exposed to, especially during interactions with his/her parents and caregivers, has profound effects on early language development, and forms the foundation for early language acquisition—a critical developmental process and established predictor of later interpersonal and academic achievement. Storytelling is a powerful medium for promoting language development, particularly when contextualized in parent-child co-reading. While there exists a vast array of children's literature, bilingual content is grossly underrepresented in children's publications, despite the rapidly increasing proportion of language minorities in the US. As a consequence, opportunities for facilitating language development and the quality of interactions through children's literature are constricted for children in homes with limited English proficient (LEP) parents. A more conscientious and sophisticated approach to bilingual storytelling, building on authentic language acquisition mechanism, is warranted to support the literacy development of children from minority language households. Addressing these challenges, this project will assess the feasibility of a comprehensive ecosystem for the creation of bilingual children's literature, incorporating a feedback mechanism allowing parents to gain insight in interactional patterns with their children built into eBook format. Building on the concept of code switching, a natural way of acquiring a language, the content creation methodology guides the production of content with a unique language blend, allowing gradually increased exposure to a second language as proficiency progresses. This approach is based on standardized linguistic rules, developed to promote a pedagogical transition between languages. The feedback feature in the platform will be enabled through recordings of reading sessions, and will provide users with a report of communication behaviors occurring between a parent and child. In approaching language development through more authentic representations of bilingual content, the Blossom ecosystem will contribute to alleviating disparities related to language acquisition among children in LEP households. We will partner with a number of professionals in the early-childhood education space and veterans from the children's media industry and publishing throughout the development and evaluation phases of this novel platform.

项目摘要 孩子所面临的话语的数量和质量，尤其是在与父母互动期间 和护理人员，对早期语言发展具有深远的影响，并为早期构成了基础 语言获取 - 关键的发展过程，并确定了后来人际关系的预测指标 学术成就。讲故事是促进语言发展的有力媒介，特别是 当亲子共同读取上下文时。虽然存在各种各样的儿童文学，但双语 内容在儿童出版物中的总数不足，迅速增加的比例 美国语言少数群体。结果，支持语言发展的机会和 通过儿童文学的互动质量对英语有限的家庭中的儿童受限 精通（LEP）父母。一种更为认真，更精致的双语讲故事的方法，以此为基础 有必要提供真实的语言获​​取机制，以支持儿童的识字发展 少数民族语言家庭。 解决这些挑战，该项目将评估一个全面生态系统的可行性 创建双语儿童文学，结合了一种反馈机制，使父母获得洞察力 与他们的孩子建立在电子书格式中的互动模式。基于代码切换的概念，一个 获取语​​言的自然方法，内容创建方法论指导内容的生产 独特的语言融合，允许随着熟练程度逐渐增加接触第二语言 进展。这种方法基于标准化的语言规则，用于促进教学 语言之间的过渡。平台中的反馈功能将通过录音来启用 阅读会议，并将为用户提供父母之间发生的沟通行为的报告 和孩子。在通过更真实的双语内容表示语言发展时， 开花生态系统将有助于减轻与儿童语言获取有关的分布 在LEP家庭中。我们将与早期教育领域的许多专业人员合作， 来自儿童媒体行业的退伍军人，并在整个发展和评估阶段发布 这个新颖的平台。