Literacy, Education, and Language Processing: Special Sessions at the Human Sentence Processing 2023 Conference

语言在日常生活中至关重要。心理语言学的领域旨在了解语言理解和生产的认知机制。它研究了工作记忆，注意力，世界知识和学习系统如何影响语言使用。但是，这一领域的许多研究都依赖于受过大学教育的识字样本。科学理论还没有经过语言和读写技能的全面测试。这种差距使得教育工作者更难利用心理语言学研究来改善与语言相关的教育。显然需要将心理语言学的研究和研究人员与教育和扫盲方面的研究和研究人员联合起来。该项目支持2023年人类句子处理年会的特别会议。会议强调心理语言学，教育心理学和教育技术之间的联系。该课程将帮助描述语言处理是如何通过正规教育和识字塑造的。它也将描述我们如何在教育中使用人类语言处理的知识。“它将在匹兹堡大学举行的2023年人类句子处理年会上举行。HSP会议的前身是纽约市立大学句子处理会议。几十年来，它一直是北美最高的心理语言学会议。大约400人参加了为期三天的会议。会议包括从300多份摘要中选出的约35份口头报告和150份海报报告。作为特别会议的一部分，六位特邀发言者将讨论心理语言学与扫盲和教育的接口。他们将讨论（1）正规教育和识字如何改变语言处理，（2）在家里经历非标准方言的学生如何因适应正规教育语言的负担而处于不利地位，以及（3）教育技术如何量化语言经验和成就。该项目通过折扣注册、基于需求的旅行津贴和初级研究人员奖励来帮助培训初级科学家。该项目通过邀请为少数群体服务的机构参加特别会议的现场直播，扩大了该领域的参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Language is vital in everyday life. The field of psycholinguistics seeks to understand the cognitive mechanisms of language comprehension and production. It examines how working memory, attention, world knowledge, and learning systems affect language use. But, much research in this field has relied on literate, university-educated samples. Scientific theories have not been tested across the full range of language and literacy skills. This gap makes it harder for educators to use psycholinguistic research to improve language-related education. There is a clear need to unite research and researchers in psycholinguistics with those in education and literacy. This project supports a special session at the 2023 Annual Conference on Human Sentence processing. The session highlights connections between psycholinguistics, educational psychology, and educational technology. The session will help describe how language processing is shaped by formal education and literacy. It will also characterize how we can use our knowledge of human language processing in education.This special conference session is titled "Literacy, Education, and Language Processing." It will be held at the 2023 Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing at the University of Pittsburgh. The HSP conference is formerly known as the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. It has been the top psycholinguistics conference in North America for decades. About 400 people attend the three-day conference. The conference includes about 35 oral and 150 poster presentations selected from over 300 abstracts. As part of the special session, six invited speakers will discuss the interface of psycholinguistics with literacy and education. They will talk about (1) how formal education and literacy may alter language processing, (2) how students experiencing a nonstandard dialect at home may be disadvantaged by the burden of adapting to the language of formal education, and (3) how educational technology can quantify language experience and attainment. The project helps train junior scientists with discounted registration, need-based travel stipends, and junior researcher awards. The project broadens participation in the field by inviting minority-serving institutions to a livestream of the special session talks.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.