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

['Annick De Houwer' via Info-CHILDES]

Dear all,

To add to this, may I refer you to a brief (3 p.) questionnaire I listed in 
my 2009 textbook entitled "Bilingual First Language Acquisition" (pp. 
333-336)? In a simple table format, this questionnaire asks (amongst 
others) about the numbers of hours that caregivers estimate they spoke each 
language with children in different periods of their lives (I attach the 
manuscript version of the book appendix in which this questionnaire 
appears). Having this "absolute" information available rather than "just" 
relative estimates may be of relevance to bilingual development (see some 
chapters in the forthcoming book "Input and Experience in Bilingual 
Development", edited by Theres Grüter and Johanne Paradis, 
https://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tilar.13/main ). Of course you can 
compute relative amounts on the basis of having the information in absolute 
terms.

All the best,
Annick

Annick De Houwer
Professor of Language Acquisition and Multilingualism
University of Erfurt, Germany
annick.dehouwer at uni-erfurt.de

On Thursday, September 11, 2014 5:54:52 PM UTC+2, Cristina McKean 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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