Exposure to native language questionnaire

Tue Feb 22 20:23:12 UTC 2011

Dear Colleagues,

A few years ago we designed a questionnaire based on a survey of
existing questionnaires for assessing language background for
bilingual studies. The questionnaire as well as the article is freely
available on our website at http://cogsci.psu.edu/

Li, P., Sepanski, S., & Zhao, X. (2006). Language history
questionnaires: A web-based interface for bilingual research. Behavior
Research Methods, 38, 202-210.

Ping Li

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Barbara Pearson
<bpearson at research.umass.edu> wrote:
> Dear Infochildes,
>
> All these responses about language questionnaires no doubt go way beyond
> what we did in the 1990s at the University of Miami.
>
> I just thought I'd share the one question that we relied on the most to give
> us an estimate of overall language usage.
>
> "Please estimate what percentage of your friends are monolingual in
> <Spanish> ______ , bilingual _________, and monolingual in <English>
> _______.
>
> I put square brackets to show you can swap out the languages, but the
> percentage of friends who were monolingual Spanish speakers was the
> strongest predictor of Spanish use and even proficiency in our college age
> groups.  I think Ginny Gathercole and colleagues' big study of language
> patterns among families in Wales found something similar, although perhaps
> not so strongly stated.  Unfortunately, I can't find those data anymore
> (they were in millions of generations ago lotus (!), but it would be
> interesting if someone could incorporate the question again to see if 1) it
> holds elsewhere, and 2) to support and quantify it.
>
> Best wishes,
> Barbara
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Sharon Unsworth wrote:
>
>> Dear Pascale,
>>
>> I have also recently developed a questionnaire (based in part on work
>> by Johanne Paradis and on Guitérrez-Clellen & Kreiter (2003), amongst
>> others) which you can use to collect language background/use data and
>> using an accompanying Excel file, automatically calculate current and
>> past (cumulative) exposure as well as current quality of exposure. I'm
>> currently working on some final revisions to this but I'd be more than
>> happy to share it with you once these are complete (probably within
>> the next few weeks).
>>
>> Best wishes, Sharon
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sharon Unsworth  |  http://www.let.uu.nl/~Sharon.Unsworth/personal/
>>
>> Utrecht institute of Linguistics & Department of Modern Languages
>> Postal address: Trans 10, 3512JK Utrecht, tel. +31 30 2531729
>> Office: Room 2.38, Trans 4
>>
>> On Feb 20, 11:45 pm, Natalia Gagarina <gagar... at zas.gwz-berlin.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Dear Pascale,
>>>
>>> One more reference to native language questionnaire that we had
>>> developed in the Center for General Linguistics (ZAS) might be of
>>> interest for you. This questionnaire is a part of the Russian language
>>> proficiency test (Gagarina, N., Klassert, A., Topaj, N., 2010, ZAS
>>> Papers in Lingsuitics) and it targets the social and cultural
>>> peculiarities of the Russian-speaking immigrant children.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Natalia Gagarina
>>>
>>> Am 18.02.2011 09:51, schrieb Pascale Engel:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dear Info ï¿½ 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) childrenï¿½s
>>>> 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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> c/o 226 South College
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
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