Dear Pascale,<br><br>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.<br>
Best regards,<br><br>Caroline Floccia, Allegra Cattani (University of Plymouth)<br>Kirsten Abbot-Smith (University of Kent)<br>Frederique Arreckx (Universite de Tours)<br>Andrea Krott (University of Birmingham)<br><br><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Pascale Engel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pascaleengel@googlemail.com">pascaleengel@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear Info – CHILDES,<br>
<br>
I am running a study in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg involving<br>
bilingual Portuguese speaking immigrant children. I am particularly<br>
interested to know whether the amount and/or the quality of the<br>
exposure to the native language in the home affects a) children's<br>
performance in their first language Portuguese and b) children’s<br>
performance in their second language Luxembourgish.<br>
<br>
Ideally I would like to use some sort of questionnaire that I could<br>
give to parents to get an idea of the amount and the quality of<br>
exposure to the native language in the home. I am not aware of any<br>
existing questionnaire but before designing something from scratch I<br>
thought I would ask the Group for some feed-back. Any suggestions are<br>
greatly appreciated.<br>
<br>
Many thanks in advance<br>
<br>
<br>
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Pascale Engel de Abreu - PhD<br>
<br>
Postdoctoral Research Fellow<br>
University of Luxembourg - EMACS<br>
B.P.2 L-7201 Walferdange<br>
G.D. de Luxembourg<br>
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