EAPSI:Investigating How Australian Kriol Speaking Children Learn the Sounds of English

EAPSI：调查澳大利亚克里奥尔语儿童如何学习英语的发音

• 批准号: 1515018
• 负责人: Elise Bell
• 金额: $ 0.51万
• 依托单位: Bell Elise A
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1515018&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAPSI; Investigating; How; Australian; Kriol

Aboriginal Australian children face an educational achievement gap as broad as that faced by African American children in the United States (Bradley et al. 2007; Beresford & Grey 2008). The results of this project will provide critical information about the learning process that children who speak Kriol (a language which is often not even recognized as distinct from English) go through when learning English, which can contribute to eliminating the education gap they face. This research will be conducted in collaboration with Dr. Brett Baker of the University of Melbourne, whose work on the sound systems of Kriol and other native Australian languages is supported by a prestigious Discovery Projects grant from the Australian Research Council.The focus of this research consists of presenting experimental participants with sound discrimination tasks conducted on a tablet computer or similar device. Participants will hear an English word (ex: ?pat? [phæt]), and then choose which of two following repetitions is the same as the initial word (ex: ?pat? [phæt] vs. ?bat? [bæt]). By testing the English sound discrimination abilities of first language Kriol speaking children at different levels of English medium schooling, this project will shed light on whether English immersion education is successful in helping Kriol speaking children acquire English sound contrasts. It will provide concrete information about the difficulties that Kriol speaking children may face in learning English phonology that can be used to create learner-centered pedagogical materials and teaching strategies to begin to eliminate the educational gap faced by Australian Kriol speaking children. This NSF EAPSI award is funded in collaboration with the Australian Academy of Science.

澳大利亚土著儿童面临的教育成就差距与美国非裔美国儿童面临的差距一样大（布拉德利等人，2007年; Beresford Grey，2008年）。该项目的成果将提供关于讲克里奥尔语（一种通常甚至不被认为与英语不同的语言）的儿童在学习英语时所经历的学习过程的重要信息，这有助于消除他们面临的教育差距。本研究将与墨尔本大学的Brett Baker博士合作进行，他对Kriol和其他澳大利亚本土语言的声音系统的研究得到了澳大利亚研究理事会的著名发现项目资助。本研究的重点包括向实验参与者提供在平板电脑或类似设备上进行的声音辨别任务。参与者将听到一个英语单词（例如：？pat？[phæt]），然后选择以下两个重复中的哪一个与初始单词相同（例如：？pat？[ph与...蝙蝠？[bæt]）。通过测试不同英语教学水平的母语为Kriol语的儿童的英语语音辨别能力，本项目将揭示英语浸入式教育是否成功地帮助Kriol语儿童获得英语语音对比。它将提供具体的信息，Kriol语言的儿童可能面临的困难，在学习英语语音，可用于创建以学习者为中心的教学材料和教学策略，开始，以消除澳大利亚Kriol语言的儿童所面临的教育差距。这个NSF EAPSI奖是与澳大利亚科学院合作资助的。