Project Grant 2614900
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded The University of Texas at El Paso $291,204 on August 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct experimental research on how shared book reading interactions support dual language and literacy skills in preschool-age children. The research team designed custom dual-language books that systematically vary language balance (the proportion of text in each...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded the University of Southern California $296,591 on July 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to investigate cognitive mechanisms that enable humans to rapidly learn structured language systems. The project will run through June 30, 2029, and is performed in Los Angeles, California. The research combines behavioral experiments, computational modeling, and meta-analytic...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $752,048 supports research into early bilingual language development from 2023 to 2027. The award is made under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to further understanding of how young children learn two languages simultaneously. Specifically, the University of California, Davis will examine parent-child interactions in monolingual English and bilingual Spanish-English families of Mexican heritage. Researchers will observe...
- 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 $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 National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award, funded under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.075), supports a collaborative research project titled "The Temporal Structure of Infants' Everyday Behaviors: Language and Play Interactions in the Home Environment." The $145,840 project, awarded to the University of Oregon on September 1, 2023 with a completion date of August 31, 2026, investigates how the...
- This $699,977 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to investigate the impact of bilingualism on inhibitory control processes and executive function. The project, conducted by Nova Southeastern University, Inc., will use electroencephalography to directly measure brain activity while English-speaking monolinguals and Spanish/English bilinguals perform executive function tasks. The...
- 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...
- This postdoctoral fellowship award of $160,000, administered by the National Science Foundation's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), supports early-career research at MIT under the sponsorship of Dr. Roger Levy. The project will deliver a scalable, web-based incremental reading task (MAZE) designed to measure word-by-word reading times from children, along with a comprehensive dataset of children's reading times...
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded Arizona State University $297,224 on August 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct experimental research on how shared book reading interactions support dual language and literacy acquisition in preschoolers. The research team designed custom dual-language books to systematically test the impact of two key features of caregiver language input on children's language learning: language balance (the proportion of text in one language relative to the other) and language switching (mixing words from different languages within text). The study measures children's acquisition of novel words in each language and story comprehension using book designs that fall within the parameters of commercially available children's books. The project aims to advance theories of language cognition and inform how language input can be tailored to support early language development in bilingual children. The award carries a period of performance from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2029, with place of performance in Scottsdale, Arizona. The project produces broader impacts through open science by making coding protocols, data, and research products available to researchers, clinicians, educators, and families, and supports training of the next generation of researchers through opportunities for students in cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience. The research also has implications for school readiness and the development of artificial intelligence systems that recognize and interact with multilingual speech.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $297.2k | 7/17/26 |