Language Exposure & Use Calculator
Quickly gather information about the language use of your bilingual kids with this language exposure and use calculator.
Easily Gather Language Use Information
Gather language use from parents and teachers in three easy ways:
- Adjust the sliders below during an interview.
- Download these Parent and Teacher Questionnaires. Move these sliders below with their responses.
- For bilingual forms, download the teacher and language-specific questionnaires from our Parent Questionnaire Docs Page: Bilingual Speech Language Parent Questionnaire
- Step 1Select Input Type
- Step 2Provide Input
- Step 3Review & Get Report
Select Input Type:
Why Gather Information about Language Exposure and Use?
Why is it important to gather information about language exposure and use? When we evaluate and work with bilingual students, knowing what their current exposure to each language is helps us to understand what types of language patterns we might hear them use. What’s more, current research by Peña, Bedore, and colleagues (Bedore et al., 2018; Peña et al., 2020) indicates that, when children have current exposure and use that is less than 30% in one language, it was found that the results of standardized testing in that language did not inform the diagnostic decision. In their case, the research focused on the Bilingual English Spanish Assessment (BESA), which has a Spanish portion and an English portion. Knowing this information helps us to plan our evaluation and potentially save a lot of time.
Bedore, L. M., Peña, E. D., Anaya, J. B., Nieto, R., Lugo-Neris, M. J., & Baron, A. (2018). Understanding disorder within variation: Production of English grammatical forms by English language learners. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 49(2), 277-291.
Peña, E. D., Bedore, L. M., Shivabasappa, P., & Niu, L. (2020). Effects of divided input on bilingual children with language impairment. International journal of bilingualism, 24(1), 62-78.
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