DIP: EMBRACEing English Language Learners with Technology

在这个网络学习中：改革教育DIP（开发和实施）项目，PI专注于如何解决年轻英语学习者（ELL）的英语学习需求。 他们正在改进“通过阅读而感动”（MbR）计算机程序，该程序已被用于提高以英语为母语的人的阅读理解能力。在MbR中，儿童主动模拟一个句子或一组句子，通过计算机屏幕上的移动图片来说明他或她所理解的内容。当他们能够胜任这一点时，学习者在阅读时过渡到想象移动的图片，这样他们就成为独立和熟练的读者。在这个项目中，PI正在通过几种方式提高MbR，以帮助ELL学习英语并学习用英语阅读。这种新方法被称为EMBRACE（通过阅读来加速英语理解的增强移动），包括MbR以及学习者第一语言（在这种情况下，西班牙语）的词汇支持设施，根据学习者的语法和词汇能力和需求个性化选择下一个文本阅读，游戏式设施用于维持参与，并支持协作。研究正在解决每一种支持学习的作用和效果，以确定促进英语学习者英语素养的良好做法，如何使用技术支持这些做法，以及这些学习者英语能力的发展轨迹。由于阅读是学业成功、毕业和就业的门户，国家非常需要解决那些第一语言不是英语的人的英语学习和阅读需求。本项目通过开发一种名为“拥抱-通过阅读提高英语理解能力”的方法来解决这一问题，这是一种用于小学课堂、补充方案和家庭的互动软件系统。使用EMBRACE，孩子们通过操纵代表他们阅读内容的图片来学习英语词汇、句法和阅读。选择下一个文本阅读是个性化的个人学习者。学习者也支持与同龄人一起解决语言问题。

In this Cyberlearning: Transforming Education DIP (Development and Implementation) Project, the PIs focus on how to address the English-language learning needs of young English-language learners (ELLs). They are enhancing the Moved by Reading (MbR) computer program that has been used to increase the reading comprehension of native English speakers. In MbR, a child actively simulates a sentence or a set of sentences being read by moving pictures on a computer screen to illustrate what he or she understands. When they become competent at that, learners transition to imagining moving pictures as they are reading so that they become independent and accomplished readers. In this project, the PIs are enhancing MbR in several ways to help ELLs learn English and learn to read in English. The new approach, called EMBRACE (Enhanced Moved by Reading to Accelerate Comprehension in English), includes MbR as well as facilities for vocabulary support in learners' first language (in this case, Spanish), personalizing choice of next texts to read based on learners' syntax and vocabulary capabilities and needs, game-like facilities for sustaining engagement, and support for collaboration. Research is addressing the roles and effects of each of these supports for learning so as to identify good practices for promoting English-language literacy in ELLs, how to use technology to support those practices, and trajectories of development of English-language competencies in such learners.Because reading serves as a gateway to academic success, graduation, and employment, there is a great national need to address the English-language learning and reading needs of those whose first language is something other than English. This project addresses this issue through the development of an approach called EMBRACE -- Enhanced Moved by Reading to Accelerate Comprehension in English, an interactive software system to be used in elementary school classrooms, supplementary programs, and at home. Using EMBRACE, children learn English vocabulary, syntax, and reading through manipulating pictures representing the content of what they are reading. Choice of next texts to read is personalized to individual learners. Learners also are supported in working on language issues with peers.