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.
