Exposure to native language questionnaire

[mariateresa.guasti]

Many thank.

Teresa


On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:34:26 +0000
 Caroline Floccia <caroline at carolinefloccia.info> wrote:
> Dear Maria,
> 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!
> 
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:07 AM, mariateresa.guasti <
> mariateresa.guasti at unimib.it> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> Devon PL4 8AA
> tel: (+0044) 1752 584822
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