ICLS 2000 Proceedings

Using Speech Recognition Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction for Emerging Readers

Susan M. Williams
Vanderbilt University
Learning Technology Center Box 45, GPC
Nashville, TN 37203
Tel: 615-343-7948, Fax: 615-343-7556
Email: susan.williams@vanderbilt.edu

Don Nix & Peter Fairweather
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 218
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598-028
Tel: 914-945-2138, Fax: 914-945-4395
Email: donnix@us.ibm.com, pfairwea@us.ibm.com

Abstract: In this paper, we describe advances that make it possible to realize the potential of speech recognition to support emerging readers. These advances include improvements in the technology itself and in the design of Watch Me! Read, a tutor that uses this technology to support young readers. In addition, we evaluate Watch Me! Read using a framework for thinking about issues of learning involved in any attempt to implement new technologies. In most discussions of technology implementations, the learning issues remain relatively tacit. By making them explicit, it is possible to assess their coherence as a system (see Brown & Campione, 1996) and their correspondence with what is known about human learning.

Keywords: literacy education, learning environments

Preferred Citation Format:
Williams, S.M., Nix, D., & Fairweather, P. (2000). Using Speech Recognition Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction for Emerging Readers. In B. Fishman & S. O'Connor-Divelbiss (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 115-120). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

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