exposure to other cultures/languages

[Francesca La Morgia]

Hello,
I designed a questionnaire to measure the quantity of input bilingual
children were exposed to and I also measured the quality of input.
If you are interested, you can access my PhD thesis (which includes the
questionnaire) at the link below.
Francesca

La Morgia, F. 2011. Bilingual First Language Acquisition: the nature of the
weak language and the role of the input. Unpublished PhD thesis. Dublin
City University.
http://doras.dcu.ie/16056/



On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Laura Morett <lmorett at ucsc.edu> wrote:

> Hi Jen,
> In terms of questionnaires designed to measure bilingual language
> exposure, I'm aware of the LEAP-Q (Marian, Blumenfeld, & Kaushanskaya
> (2007) and a similar measure used by Bosch and Sebastian-Galles (2001).
>  The former is intended for use with adult bilinguals, and is normed.  The
> latter is intended for use with parents of infants and young children, but
> is not normed.  I'm including the references below. I'm not aware of any
> questionnaires intended to measure exposure to culture.
>
> Salutations from Pittsburgh!
>
> Laura
>
>
> Bosch, L., & Sebastián-Gallés,N. (2001). Evidence of Early
> Language Discrimination Abilities in Infants From Bilingual Environments.
> *Infancy, 2*, 29-49.
>
> The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q): Assessing
> Language Profiles in Bilinguals and Multilinguals.  *Journal of Speech,
> Language, and Hearing Research, 50, *940-967.
>
>
>  On Jan 8, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Jen Menjivar wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to create a measure assessing the amount of exposure children
> have had to other cultures and/or languages. Does anyone know of any
> existing measures that examine these or similar questions (preferably in
> the form of a questionnaire filled out by parents)?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Best,
>
> Jen
>
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> Doctoral Candidate, Psychology
> University of California, Santa Cruz
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Dr. Francesca La Morgia
Dept. of English Language and Literature
School of Literature and Languages
The University of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading RG6 6AA

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