Using the questionnaire

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

File type: PDF
File size: 131.98 KB

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

Q-BEx Manual V1

Back-end calculator example

File type: XLSX
File size: 22.42 KB

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

Backend_calculator_example

Output interpretation guide

File type: XLSX
File size: 37.93 KB

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: 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

Versions in different languages

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

English
German
Japanese

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

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

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