The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $109,799 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Florida Division of Sponsored Research. The grant supports a collaborative research project to use sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture teacher language interactions in diverse pre-K classrooms. The project aims to provide insights into how preschool language experiences shape children's language...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $370,236 to the University of South Florida to use sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture teacher-child language interactions in diverse pre-K classrooms. The project aims to examine how often preschool teachers engage in language interactions with students, whether certain children receive fewer or briefer interactions,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $169,965 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) for a 3-year collaborative research project. The project aims to use innovative sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture and analyze teacher language interactions with preschool children in diverse classroom settings. The goal is to gain insights into how teacher-child language experiences...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program awarded a $598,444 project grant to the University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research. This 3-year grant, commencing on September 15, 2024, will fund a research project to measure the dynamic impact of personal social networks on language learning outcomes, with a focus on heritage speakers of Spanish. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: 1)...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $300,000 to Florida State University (FSU) supports the development of a new class of latent variable models for network data. The research aims to create models that can capture essential characteristics observed in network data from various disciplines, including the social and life sciences. Key activities include integrating and extending existing approaches to modeling...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems award provides $600,000 over 3 years (8/1/2023 - 7/31/2026) to Michigan State University to develop an assistive technology framework for improving social skills interventions for children with autism and other developmental disabilities in classroom settings. The key products to be developed include a wearable human interaction tracker (WHET) tag that can quantitatively measure and track interactions...
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $217,800 two-year Project Grant to researchers at Berkeley, California to study the contributions of the environment and social interaction to language emergence. The grant is part of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields. Under the award, the researchers will investigate how environmental and social factors shape...
This federal Project Grant award of $146,005 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports research to examine how family stress and cohesion relate to a young child's language environment and language acquisition. The project consists of two studies: a secondary analysis of existing data from 100 families with 3- to 5-year-old children, and an intensive longitudinal study with natural home...
This $378,185 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports research at the University of Chicago to investigate how children's perceptions of others' competence are shaped by the way those individuals are spoken to. Specifically, the project aims to explore how stereotyped beliefs about certain student groups may...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $522,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Arizona for a 3-year research project titled "LANGDIV: BEYOND OBJECT-LABEL MAPPINGS: A TEMPORAL MICROANALYSIS OF TODDLER SEMANTIC AND LEXICAL INTEGRATION." The research aims to examine how the words that toddlers already know affect their ability to learn new words, providing insights to parents and educators on optimal...