Exposure to native language questionnaire

Wed Feb 23 16:33:30 UTC 2011

Dear Rita,
I attach it to this email. It starts with a series of questions which will
determine which section to fill in. All parents have to fill in section D
anyway, which contains information such as date of birth, SES, etc. But
section B and C are for parents of bilingual kids: one is for families where
both parents speak the Additional Language (both French for example), and
the other for families where only one parent is non-English speaker (Mum
French and Dad English for example). We didn't develop anything for families
in which more than one additional language is spoken (Mum French, Dad
Spanish for example).
Also, you need to know that after extensive piloting, we have decided to
increase the weight of the mother's input, that is, whatever she does
(speaking only English, or only French, or half half) counts more than what
the father does.
Columns D and after are full of calculations, nothing should be changed
there.
What we usually do is that we print the first 4 pages, and we are next to
the parent when she/he fills it in. Then we simply enter the numbers in the
excel spreadsheet afterwards, and that gives us the percentage of exposure.
Please let me know if you ave any question/problem.
I also enclose a word document that contains the explanations as to how the
entire calculations work.

I hope it will help!
Caroline

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Rita Leite <rita.leite18 at oi.com.br> wrote:

> Dear  Caroline
> Hello. I am Rita, I'm Speech and Language Therapist in Brazil.
> I would be interested in your questionnaire. Can you send
> me the excel file?
> Thank
> Rita
>
>
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com]
> Em
> nome de mariateresa.guasti
> Enviada em: terça-feira, 22 de fevereiro de 2011 06:08
> Para: info-childes at googlegroups.com
> Assunto: Re: Exposure to native language questionnaire
>
> Dear Caroline,
>
> hello. It is a long time we did not see each other.
>
> I would be interested in your questionnaire. Can you send
> me the excel file?
>
> thank
> Teresa
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:09:14 +0000
>  Caroline Floccia <caroline at carolinefloccia.info> wrote:
> > Dear Pascale,
> >
> > At the University of Plymouth, we have developed a
> >questionnaire last year,
> > which allows you to calculate the percentage of exposure
> >to English from
> > data such as the number of hours the child sleeps at
> >night, what language
> > each parent uses most often to talk to the child, how
> >many hours the child
> > spends with each parent alone, etc. We are currently
> >writing a paper in
> > which we show that the performances of 30-month-olds in
> >various English
> > tests can be predicted by their score in the exposure
> >questionnaire. If you
> > are interested, I can send it to you, in its current
> >state it is an excel
> > file, very easy to fill in.
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Caroline Floccia, Allegra Cattani (University of
> >Plymouth)
> > Kirsten Abbot-Smith (University of Kent)
> >Frederique Arreckx (Universite de Tours)
> > Andrea Krott (University of Birmingham)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Pascale Engel
> > <pascaleengel at googlemail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Info – CHILDES,
> >>
> >> I am running a study in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
> >>involving
> >> bilingual Portuguese speaking immigrant children. I am
> >>particularly
> >> interested to know whether the amount and/or the quality
> >>of the
> >> exposure to the native language in the home affects a)
> >>children's
> >> performance in their first language Portuguese and b)
> >>children’s
> >> performance in their second language Luxembourgish.
> >>
> >> Ideally I would like to use some sort of questionnaire
> >>that I could
> >> give to parents to get an idea of the amount and the
> >>quality of
> >> exposure to the native language in the home. I am not
> >>aware of any
> >> existing questionnaire but before designing something
> >>from scratch I
> >> thought I would ask the Group for some feed-back. Any
> >>suggestions are
> >> greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Many thanks in advance
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------------------------------------
> >> Pascale Engel de Abreu - PhD
> >>
> >> Postdoctoral Research Fellow
> >> University of Luxembourg - EMACS
> >> B.P.2 L-7201 Walferdange
> >> G.D. de Luxembourg
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> > PSQ A213
> > School of Psychology
> > University of Plymouth
> > Drake Circus
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Dr. Caroline Floccia
Reader (Associate Professor)
PSQ A213
School of Psychology
University of Plymouth
Drake Circus
Devon PL4 8AA
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