Validated Language exposure questionnaires for children growing up in a multilingual context

[Johanne Paradis]

Dear Cristina,

It appears you have many choices, but let me add to them. 

You could consider a questionnaire we have developed in my lab - The Alberta Language Environment Questionnaire - for use with parents of children from immigrant families, aged 4-8 (link below).  You would need to adapt it if you wanted parents to complete it on their own.  It was designed to be given as part of an oral interview with parents, often with an interpreter present.  Reference to a paper showing the predictive value of variables obtained from the questionnaire on children's English development is also below.

http://www.linguistics.ualberta.ca/CHESL_Centre/Questionnaires.aspx

Paradis, J. (2011). Individual Differences in Child English Second Language Acquisition: Comparing Child-Internal and Child-External Factors. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 1:3, 213-237.

Regards,
Johanne

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On 2014-09-11, at 9:52 AM, Cristina McKean <cristina.mckean at newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> It would be great to have some advice if possible.
> 
> I am trying to find a language exposure questionnaire for asking parents about relative exposure to different languages for children between the ages of 2 and 8 years who are growing up in a multilingual environment . I would like to find one which is relatively simple to fill in (for parents who may not read English) and which has been validated through measures of correlations with children's language competence. 
> 
> Does such a tool exist? 
> Cristina
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