Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences, University of Houston, TX.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2022 Oct 17;65(10):3835-3853. doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00675. Epub 2022 Sep 27.
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.
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.
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 fit, reasonableness, consistency with theory, and model parsimony, suggesting that the questionnaire has good internal reliability. The scaled results of the questionnaires significantly correlated with behavioral measures of both Spanish and English, supporting the convergent validity of the measure.
The Houston Questionnaire is an assessment tool for the assessment of bilingual experience and self-perception of proficiency in Spanish and English bilingual children between the ages of 4 and 8 years. The results provide foundational evidence supporting the reliability and convergent validity of this tool.
本研究旨在开发一个儿童自陈式问卷，用以测量双语经历和西班牙语及英语熟练度的自我认知，并为该问卷建立初步的有效性和信度证据。
参与者包括 113 名年龄在 4 至 8 岁之间、患有或未患有发育性语言障碍的西班牙-英语双语儿童。所有儿童均以西班牙语完成问卷，并参加了西班牙语和英语语言技能的行为评估。
使用验证性因子分析，具有三个相关因子（西班牙语熟练度自我认知、英语熟练度自我认知和双语经历）的模型表现出最佳的整体拟合度、合理性、与理论的一致性和模型简约性，表明问卷具有良好的内部一致性。问卷的标度结果与西班牙语和英语的行为测量显著相关，支持该测量的聚合效度。
《休斯顿问卷》是一种评估工具，用于评估 4 至 8 岁西班牙语和英语双语儿童的双语经历和西班牙语及英语熟练度的自我认知。研究结果为该工具的可靠性和聚合效度提供了基础证据支持。
