Documenting heritage language experience using questionnaires.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There exists a great degree of variability in the documentation of multilingual experience across different instruments. The present paper contributes to the "methods turn" and individual differences focus in (heritage) bilingualism by proposing a comprehensive online questionnaire building on existing questionnaires and the experience of using them to document heritage bilingualism: the Heritage Language Experience (HeLEx) online questionnaire. HeLEx is validated against and contrasted to an extended version of the Language and Social Background Questionnaire designed for heritage speakers (HSs), LSBQ-H.

Methods

We compare data elicited with both questionnaires in turn from a group of Turkish HSs (n = 174, mean age=32). Our validation focuses on traditio

SUBMITTER: Tomic A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10243138 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature