Sara a. Smith, Ph.D.

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Selected Current Projects

"BilVocab": Effect of Bilingual vs. Monolingual Methods of Explicit English Vocabulary Instruction on 4th grade Spanish-Speaking English Learners (ELs). Institute of Education Sciences. R305A200047. $1,398,975. 


Improving Literacy Teaching for Early Educators Through Automated Feedback from Large Language Models. Early Childhood Policy Research Seed Funding, University of Florida Early Childhood Policy Centers Collaborative.  


 Collaborative Research: Using Sensing Technology and Automated Speech Recognition to Capture Teacher Language Interactions in Diverse Pre-K Classrooms. National Science Foundation, Developmental Sciences. 2341383. $650,000. 

Selected Past Projects

 2020-2021 Multimedia Augmented Reality Vocabulary Learning (MARVL). Foundation Bull Ring Accelerator Grant, University of South Florida. $25,000.


MARVL: Multimedia Augmented Reality Vocabulary Instruction. National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps). 2114933. $50,000.


Augmented Reality Software for Language Instruction. Air Force Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase 1. $74,629. 


Project Parasol: ESOL Paraprofessional to Teacher Pipeline. National Professional Development Program, Office of English Language Acquisition. T365Z220078. $2,061,703.


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