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

语言在日常生活中是至关重要的。心理语言学领域致力于理解语言理解和产生的认知机制。它考察了工作记忆、注意力、世界知识和学习系统是如何影响语言使用的。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。科学理论还没有在所有的语言和识字技能上得到检验。这一差距使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。显然有必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一次特别会议。该课程强调了心理语言学、教育心理学和教育技术之间的联系。本课程将帮助描述正规教育和识字对语言处理的影响。它还将说明我们如何在教育中使用我们对人类语言处理的知识。这次特别会议的标题是“识字、教育和语言处理”。它将在匹兹堡大学举行的2023年人类句子处理年度会议上举行。HSP会议的前身是CUNY句子处理会议。几十年来，它一直是北美最顶级的心理语言学会议。大约400人参加了为期三天的会议。会议包括从300多篇摘要中挑选出来的约35份口头报告和150份海报演示文稿。作为特别会议的一部分，六位受邀演讲者将讨论心理语言学与扫盲和教育的关系。他们将讨论(1)正规教育和识字如何改变语言处理，(2)在家中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。该项目通过打折的注册、基于需求的旅行津贴和初级研究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观看特别会议演讲的实况转播来扩大该领域的参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.