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

OISE-1545900：PIRE：将实验室和现场的认知和脑科学转化为语言学习环境PI： 朱迪思·F克罗尔，宾夕法尼亚州立大学合作PI：保拉E。Dussias，宾夕法尼亚州立大学John Lipski，宾夕法尼亚州立大学Janet货车Hell，宾夕法尼亚州立大学在这个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和国际合作者合作，进行研究，利用最近的科学发现，证明使用两种或两种以上的语言改变思想和大脑，对学习更开放，认知更灵活，对认知能力下降更有抵抗力。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（从学习者到高度熟练的双语者）研究课堂和实地语言学习的背景和后果。计划中的研究将影响沉浸在母语或第二语言中的学习者，研究年轻和年老的双语者，并开发新的学习和识字模式。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、识字率有限的人口以及在多语言环境中生活和学习的后果的独特新数据。它将培养一支多元化的语言科学家队伍，为基础和应用研究做好准备，并将发展新的国际合作，在多元文化背景下翻译基础科学。新兴的神经科学技术和大规模语料库分析使一系列科学发现成为可能，从而推动了语言学习和双语研究。这些新发现表明，经验诱导的可塑性比传统理解的要大得多。不仅婴儿和幼儿对新的学习持开放态度，年龄较大的儿童，年轻人，甚至老年人也对改变他们大脑和行为的新体验持开放态度。广泛的PIRE伙伴关系网络将使语言学习和语言接触的形式与迄今为止通常为研究提供信息的环境不同的情况下能够进行调查。PIRE将培训本科生，研究生和博士后研究员在三个广泛的主题进行翻译研究：（1）整个生命周期的语言学习;（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求，以真实的跟踪学习，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.