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

项目摘要 儿童接触到的话语的数量和质量，特别是在与父母的互动中 和照顾者，对早期语言发展有着深远的影响，并形成了早期语言发展的基础。 语言习得是一个关键的发展过程，是后来人际关系和 学术成就讲故事是促进语言发展的有力媒介， 亲子共读的情境下。虽然有大量的儿童文学，双语 儿童出版物中的内容严重不足，尽管儿童出版物中的 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，儿童文学的互动质量受到限制 父母（LEP）一个更认真和复杂的双语讲故事的方法，建立在 真正的语言习得机制，是有必要支持儿童的识字发展， 少数民族语言家庭。 为了应对这些挑战，该项目将评估为非洲建立一个综合生态系统的可行性。 创作双语儿童文学，纳入反馈机制，让家长了解 以电子书形式与孩子互动。基于代码转换的概念， 自然的方式获得一种语言，内容创作方法指导内容的生产， 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。这种方法是基于标准化的语言规则，发展，以促进教学 语言之间的过渡。平台中的反馈功能将通过以下记录启用： 阅读会话，并将为用户提供父母之间发生的通信行为的报告 和孩子.在通过更真实地呈现双语内容来接近语言发展的过程中， 开花生态系统将有助于缓解儿童语言习得方面的差异 在LEP家庭中。我们将与幼儿教育领域的一些专业人士合作， 在整个开发和评估阶段，来自儿童媒体行业和出版业的资深人士 这个新的平台。

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.