Language history questionnaire: A web-based interface for bilingual research
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Ping Li1, Sara Sepanski, Xiaowei Zhao
1Department of Psychology, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia 23173, USA. pli@richmond.edu
Abstract:
A Web-based interface has been developed to facilitate researchers in collecting language history information online. Most researchers use their own versions of language history questionnaires for specific studies in second language acquisition. Although these versions of questionnaires all differ from one another in some respects, there is a significant amount of overlap between them. Here we identify the crucial dimensions that most investigators consider important to include in such a questionnaire. We have examined the most commonly asked questions in 41 published questionnaires, and on the basis of our analyses we propose a general L2 language history questionnaire. Subjects can enter some or all of the information on the Web, and the results are automatically generated as an RTF output file on the user's desktop.
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