Using the questionnaire

Before using this tool, please familiarise yourself with the terms and conditions.

For information on how to access the questionnaire and customise it to your professional needs, including guidance on how to interpret the output, please download the resources below. Information about translations appear at the bottom of the page.

Please cite this reference in publications arising from research using the Q-BEx questionnaire:

De Cat, C., Kašćelan, D., Prévost, P., Serratrice, L., Tuller, L., & Unsworth, S. (2021). Quantifying Bilingual EXperience (Q-BEx): questionnaire manual and documentation. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/GB9M7

(The reference to cite will be updated after the validation study has been published – i.e., no sooner than the end of 2022.)

Manual

Information on how to register, how to create a project, how to access and interpret the output files.

Q-BEx Manual

Back-end calculator example

A spreadsheet featuring the formulae used to calculate Current Weighted Exposure and Use, Cumulative Exposure and Use, and Richness

Back-end calculator example

Output interpretation guide

A spreadsheet listing the items included in the output files and containing:

Raw Data: clarifies what each of row corresponds to by associating its heading with the original question and response scale
Exposure & Use Calculations, Richness Calculation: lists all the calculated measures and their unit of interpretation, and indicates the reliability of each calculated measure, depending on which modules of the questionnaires were included

Output interpretation guide

Versions in different languages

The questionnaire is currently available for administration in the following languages:

English
Dutch
German
Japanese

Work is under way or planned for versions in the following languages:

Arabic
BCMS (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian)
French
Galician
Italian
Korean
Malay
Mandarin
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Slovene
Spanish
Tamil
Turkish

We are looking for collaborators to create versions in Bengali, Berber, Hindi, Portuguese, Punjabi, Urdu. If you would like to contribute to the translation into one of these languages or in another language, see here.