DIP: EMBRACEing English Language Learners with Technology

在这个网络学习：转变教育DIP(发展和实施)项目中，PIS重点关注如何满足年轻英语学习者(ELLS)的英语学习需求。他们正在加强被阅读感动(MBR)的计算机程序，该程序已被用来提高以英语为母语的人的阅读理解。在MBR中，儿童通过电脑屏幕上的活动图像来主动模拟正在阅读的一个或一组句子，以说明他或她理解的内容。当他们在这方面变得熟练时，学习者就会在阅读时过渡到想象活动画面，从而成为独立和有成就的读者。在这个项目中，PIs正在从几个方面加强MBR，以帮助Ells学习英语和学习用英语阅读。这一新的教学方法名为“拥抱”(Enhance Move By Reking To Accelerate In English)，它包括MBR以及为学习者的第一语言(这里是西班牙语)提供词汇支持的设施、根据学习者的句法、词汇能力和需求个性化选择阅读的下一篇课文、用于保持参与度的类似游戏的设施，以及支持协作。研究正在探讨每一种学习支持的作用和效果，以确定在ELL中促进英语语言素养的良好做法，如何使用技术来支持这些做法，以及此类学习者英语能力的发展轨迹。由于阅读是学术成功、毕业和就业的门户，因此国家迫切需要解决母语不是英语的人的英语学习和阅读需求。这个项目通过开发一种名为拥抱的方法来解决这个问题--通过阅读增强了对英语的理解，这是一个用于小学课堂、补充程序和家庭的互动软件系统。通过使用拥抱，孩子们通过操纵图片来学习英语词汇、句法和阅读，图片代表了他们正在阅读的内容。接下来要阅读的文本的选择是个性化的，由学习者个人决定。此外，还支持学习者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.