Collaborative Research: Parent-EMBRACE: An Embodied ITS for Improving Comprehension during fParent-Child Shared Reading

年轻的拉丁裔双语学习者是我们社会中不断增长的一部分。不幸的是，这些孩子中的许多人在阅读理解方面遇到了困难，他们的父母并不总是有工具来支持他们。也就是说，父母通常是新移民，他们也不擅长西班牙语和英语，因此很少与孩子一起阅读。当这些父母参与到共同的阅读中时，他们不会问那些促进理解的问题。这个项目将建立在已经开发的iPad应用程序，EMBRACE，这有助于双语学习者成为成功的英语读者。 将对EMBRACE进行修改，以鼓励父母/儿童分享阅读;培训父母如何提出问题以增强理解力;并促进两种语言的阅读，因为语言之间的阅读技能转移。因此，这项工作将通过提高父母和儿童的阅读技能和教育成就对社会产生潜在影响。该项目将对三个科学领域做出贡献。第一个贡献是对人机交互的研究。EMBRACE将通过第一个专为亲子使用而设计的智能辅导系统进行修改，从而揭示了创建智能学习环境的设计原则，这些环境对如何使用和由谁使用都很敏感。 第二，在家庭中对新的“拥抱”系统进行实验性测试，将有助于了解加强双语教育的过程，以及干预措施如何对这些过程产生积极影响。第三，测试的一个组成部分包括使用脑电图来跟踪干预产生的大脑活动的变化。因此，该研究通过使用来自儿童及其父母的过程数据、结果数据和神经认知数据的组合，为阅读理解的认知心理学和神经科学做出了贡献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Young Latino dual language learners are a growing segment of our society. Unfortunately, many of these children struggle with reading comprehension, and their parents do not always have the tools to support them. That is, the parents are often recent immigrants who are also poor readers in both Spanish and English, and thus read infrequently with their children. When these parents do engage in shared reading, they do not ask the sorts of questions that promote comprehension. This project will build upon the already-developed iPad application, EMBRACE, which helps dual language learners become successful readers of English. EMBRACE will be modified to encourage parent/child shared reading; to train the parents on how to ask questions that enhance comprehension; and to promote reading in both languages since reading skill transfers between languages. Thus, the work will potentially impact society by improving reading skills and educational achievement of both parents and children. The project will contribute to three areas of science. The first contribution is to the study of human-computer interaction. EMBRACE will be modified with the first intelligent tutoring system designed specifically for parent-child use, thus uncovering design principles for the creation of intelligent learning environments that are sensitive to how they are being used and by whom. Second, experimental testing of the new EMBRACE system with families will contribute to understanding the processes that enhance bilingual education and how interventions can positively influence these processes. Third, a component of the testing includes the use of electroencephalography to trace changes in brain activity produced by the intervention. Thus, the research contributes to the cognitive psychology and neuroscience of reading comprehension by using a combination of process data, outcome data, and neurocognitive data from both the children and their parents.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.