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

ABSTRACT:

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 fi

SUBMITTER: Castilla-Earls A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9927622 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature