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：Judith F. Kroll，宾夕法尼亚州立大学 联合PI：Paola E. Dussias，宾夕法尼亚州立大学 John Lipski，宾夕法尼亚州立大学 Janet van 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，开展利用最新科学成果的研究这些发现表明，使用两种或多种语言可以改变思想和大脑，使学习更加开放，认知更加灵活，并且更能抵抗认知衰退。该项目的目标是将语言学习科学转化为教育，并为日益多样化的人群（从学习者到高度熟练的双语者）检查课堂和现场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，检查年轻和年老的双语者，并开发新的学习和识字模式。该 PIRE 将把语言科学从实验室带入实践，并将实地研究与实验室实验相结合，提供有关少数民族语言和濒危语言、识字率有限的人群以及多语言环境中生活和学习的后果的独特新数据。它将培训一支多元化的语言科学家队伍，为开展基础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。新兴神经科学技术和大规模语料库分析带来的一系列科学发现推动了语言学习和双语研究的发展。这些新发现表明，经验引发的可塑性比传统理解的要大得多。不仅婴儿和幼儿愿意接受新的学习，年龄较大的儿童、年轻人甚至老年人也愿意接受改变他们的大脑和行为的新体验。广泛的 PIRE 合作网络将使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环境中进行调查。 PIRE将培训本科生、研究生和博士后研究员，以开展三大主题的转化研究：（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)多元化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，实时跟踪学习情况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.