Bilingual e-Book Platform for Early Childhood Literacy Development and Intrafamiliar Communication

项目总结 儿童接触到的话语的数量和质量，尤其是在与父母互动时 和照顾者，对早期语言发展有深远的影响，并形成早期语言发展的基础 语言习得--一个关键的发展过程和对以后人际交往和语言发展的预测 学术成就。讲故事是促进语言发展的强大媒介，尤其是 当在亲子共同阅读中被背景化时。虽然存在着大量的儿童文学，但双语的 内容在儿童出版物中的代表性严重不足，尽管 美国的少数民族语言。因此，促进语言发展的机会和 在英语水平有限的家庭中，儿童通过儿童文学进行互动的质量受到限制 熟练的(LEP)父母。更认真、更复杂的双语讲故事方法，基于 真正的语言习得机制，是支持儿童识字能力发展的保证 少数民族语言家庭。 为了应对这些挑战，该项目将评估一个全面的生态系统的可行性 创作双语儿童文学，纳入反馈机制，让父母获得洞察力 在互动模式中，他们的孩子被内置到电子书格式中。在代码交换概念的基础上， 作为学习语言的自然方式，内容创作方法论指导着内容的生产 独特的语言融合，允许逐渐增加接触第二语言的熟练程度 进步了。这种方法是基于标准化的语言规则，开发的目的是促进一种 语言之间的转换。平台中的反馈功能将通过录制以下内容启用 阅读会话，并将为用户提供发生在父母之间的交流行为的报告 还有孩子。在通过更真实地呈现双语内容来实现语言发展方面， BLOSSOM生态系统将有助于缓解儿童在语言习得方面的差距 在LEP家庭中。我们将与许多幼儿教育领域的专业人士合作，并 来自儿童媒体行业和出版业的资深人士在整个开发和评估阶段 这个新奇的平台。

PROJECT SUMMARY The number and quality of utterances a child is exposed to, especially during interactions with his/her parents and caregivers, has profound effects on early language development, and forms the foundation for early language acquisition—a critical developmental process and established predictor of later interpersonal and academic achievement. Storytelling is a powerful medium for promoting language development, particularly when contextualized in parent-child co-reading. While there exists a vast array of children's literature, bilingual content is grossly underrepresented in children's publications, despite the rapidly increasing proportion of language minorities in the US. As a consequence, opportunities for facilitating language development and the quality of interactions through children's literature are constricted for children in homes with limited English proficient (LEP) parents. A more conscientious and sophisticated approach to bilingual storytelling, building on authentic language acquisition mechanism, is warranted to support the literacy development of children from minority language households. Addressing these challenges, this project will assess the feasibility of a comprehensive ecosystem for the creation of bilingual children's literature, incorporating a feedback mechanism allowing parents to gain insight in interactional patterns with their children built into eBook format. Building on the concept of code switching, a natural way of acquiring a language, the content creation methodology guides the production of content with a unique language blend, allowing gradually increased exposure to a second language as proficiency progresses. This approach is based on standardized linguistic rules, developed to promote a pedagogical transition between languages. The feedback feature in the platform will be enabled through recordings of reading sessions, and will provide users with a report of communication behaviors occurring between a parent and child. In approaching language development through more authentic representations of bilingual content, the Blossom ecosystem will contribute to alleviating disparities related to language acquisition among children in LEP households. We will partner with a number of professionals in the early-childhood education space and veterans from the children's media industry and publishing throughout the development and evaluation phases of this novel platform.