Can Bilingual Children Self-Report Their Bilingual Experience and Proficiency? The Houston Questionnaire.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop a child self-report questionnaire measuring bilingual experience and self-perceptions of Spanish and English proficiency and establish preliminary evidence of validity and reliability for the questionnaire. Method: Participants included 113 Spanish-Engli...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 65; no. 10; pp. 3835 - 3854
Autores principales: Castilla-Earls, Anny, Ronderos, Juliana, Fitton, Lisa
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Oct2022
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          Castilla-Earls, Anny
          Ronderos, Juliana
          Fitton, Lisa
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          Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences, University of Houston, TX
          Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia
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        Multilingualism
        Communicative competence
        Self-evaluation
        Self-perception
        Experience
        Vocabulary
        Children
        Experimental design
        English language
        Research evaluation
        Research methodology
        Research methodology evaluation
        Spanish language
        Questionnaires
        Factor analysis
        Descriptive statistics
        Research funding
        Evaluation
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          Multilingualism
          Communicative competence
          Self-evaluation
          Self-perception
          Experience
          Vocabulary
          Children
          Experimental design
          English language
          Research evaluation
          Research methodology
          Research methodology evaluation
          Spanish language
          Questionnaires
          Factor analysis
          Descriptive statistics
          Research funding
          Evaluation
      ab: Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop a child self-report questionnaire measuring bilingual experience and self-perceptions of Spanish and English proficiency and establish preliminary evidence of validity and reliability for the questionnaire. Method: Participants included 113 Spanish-English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorders ranging in age from 4 to 8 years. All children completed the questionnaire in Spanish and participated in behavioral assessment of their language skills in both Spanish and English. Results: Using confirmatory factor analysis, a model with three correlated factors (self-perception of proficiency in Spanish, self-perception of proficiency in English, and bilingual experience) emerged with the best global fit, reasonableness, consistency with theory, and model parsimony, suggesting that the questionnaire has good internal reliability. The scaled results of the questionnaires significantly correlated with behavioral measures of both Spanish and English, supporting the convergent validity of the measure. Conclusions: The Houston Questionnaire is an assessment tool for the assessment of bilingual experience and self-perception of proficiency in Spanish and English bilingual children between the ages of 4 and 8 years. The results provide foundational evidence supporting the reliability and convergent validity of this tool.
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