Find out how to use the questionnaire and how it was designed.
The Q-BEx project in a nutshell
Bilingualism is a world-wide phenomenon, featuring a vast amount of diversity. Researchers, educators and clinicians across the world face similar challenges when it comes to estimating how bilingual an individual is. The tools developed by the Q-BEx project were informed by an in-depth review of existing tools and a consensus among researchers, teachers and SLTs on what aspects of language experience should be measured. We have developed a user-friendly, secure, online questionnaire (and back-end calculators) to return measures of current and cumulative language experience in real time, as well as a number of other measures relevant for developing language profiles of bi/trilingual children. The questionnaire can be customised in many ways to facilitate administration and provide the required level of detail. It creates individual reports for teachers and clinicians, summarising the child’s language experience and flagging those who may be at risk of a language disorder.
The reliability and cross-language validity of this new tool has been assessed using new data from 300 children in 3 different countries. Based on this assessment, we provide evidence-based guidance to inform users’ choice on the level of questionnaire detail most appropriate to your needs.
