PIRE: Translating cognitive and brain science in the laboratory and field to language learning environments

翻译认知和脑科学在实验室和领域的语言学习环境spi：朱迪思F.克罗尔，宾夕法尼亚州立大学联合pi；在这个PIRE项目中，宾夕法尼亚州立大学与欧洲、拉丁美洲和亚洲的国内外合作者合作，开展研究，利用最近令人兴奋的科学发现，这些发现表明，使用两种或两种以上的语言会改变思维和大脑，使其更开放地学习。认知更灵活，更能抵抗认知衰退。该项目的目标是将语言学习的科学转化为教育，并为日益多样化的人群（从学习者到精通双语者）检查课堂和实地语言学习的背景和后果。这项计划中的研究将影响沉浸在母语或第二语言中的学习者，检查年轻人和老年人的双语者，并开发新的学习和读写模式。该项目将把语言科学从实验室带到实践中，并将实地研究与基于实验室的实验相结合，以提供关于少数民族和濒危语言、读写能力有限的人群以及在多语言环境中生活和学习的后果的独特新数据。它将培养一支多样化的语言科学家队伍，为开展基础研究和应用研究做好准备，并将开展新的国际合作，在不同文化背景下翻译基础科学。新兴的神经科学技术和对大规模语料库的分析使一系列科学发现成为可能，这推动了语言学习和双语的研究。这些新发现表明，经验诱发的可塑性比传统认识的要大得多。不仅婴幼儿乐于接受新知识，大一点的孩子、年轻人甚至老年人也乐于接受改变他们大脑和行为的新体验。广泛的伙伴关系网络将使在语言学习和语言接触形式不同于迄今为止通常为研究提供信息的环境的背景下进行调查成为可能。该项目将培养本科生、研究生和博士后，在三个广泛的主题上进行翻译研究：(1)终身语言学习；(2)教学方法对成功学习成果的作用；(3)不同社会环境对语言学习的影响。计划中的研究将利用一系列行为、神经科学和现场方法来确定干预的准备情况和需要，实时跟踪学习，并评估新的学习成果。

OISE-1545900: PIRE: Translating cognitive and brain science in the laboratory and field to language learning environmentsPI: Judith F. Kroll, The Pennsylvania State University Co-PIs: Paola E. Dussias, The Pennsylvania State University John Lipski, The Pennsylvania State University Janet van Hell, The Pennsylvania State University In this PIRE project, The Pennsylvania State University partners with domestic and international collaborators in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, to conduct research that exploits the excitement of recent scientific discoveries that demonstrate that the use of two or more languages changes minds and brains to be more open to learning, more cognitively flexible, and more resistant to cognitive decline. The goal of the project is to translate the science of language learning for education and to examine the contexts and consequences of language learning in the classroom and in the field for a population who are increasingly diverse and range from learners to highly proficient bilinguals. The planned research will impact learners immersed in their native or second language, examine bilinguals who are young and old, and develop new models of learning and literacy. This PIRE will bring language science from the laboratory to practice and will integrate field research with laboratory-based experimentation to provide unique new data on minority and endangered languages, populations with limited literacy, and the consequences of living and learning in a multilingual environment. It will train a diverse workforce of language scientists to be prepared to conduct both basic and applied research and will develop new international collaborations that translate basic science in culturally diverse contexts.Research on language learning and bilingualism has been fueled by a set of scientific discoveries made possible by emerging neuroscience technologies and the analysis of large scale corpora. These new discoveries show that there is far greater experience-induced plasticity than traditionally understood. Not only are infants and young children open to new learning, but older children, young adults, and even older adults are open to new experience that changes their brains and behavior. The broad PIRE network of partnerships will enable investigations in contexts where the form of language learning and language contact differ from the environments that have typically informed research to date. The PIRE will train undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows to conduct translational research across three broad themes: (1) Language learning across the life span; (2) The role of instructional approaches for successful learning outcomes; and (3) The impact of diverse social environments for language learning. The planned research will exploit a range of behavioral, neuroscience, and field methods to identify readiness and need for intervention, to track learning in real time, and to assess new learning outcomes.