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TY - JOUR
T1 - Parental Report via a Mobile App in the Context of Early Language Trajectories
T2 - StarWords Study Protocol
AU - Mieszkowska, Karolina
AU - Krajewski, Grzegorz
AU - Sobota, Krzysztof
AU - Dynak, Agnieszka
AU - Kolak, Joanna
AU - Krysztofiak, Magdalena
AU - Łukomska, Barbara
AU - Łuniewska, Magdalena
AU - Garmann, Nina Gram
AU - Hansen, Pernille
AU - Romøren, Anna Sara Hexeberg
AU - Simonsen, Hanne Gram
AU - Alcock, Katie
AU - Katsos, Napoleon
AU - Haman, Ewa
PY - 2022/3/5
Y1 - 2022/3/5
N2 - Social sciences researchers emphasize that new technologies can overcome the limitations of small and homogenous samples. In research on early language development, which often uses parental reports, taking the testing online might be particularly compelling. Due to logistical limitations, previous studies on bilingual children have explored the language development trajectories in general (e.g., by including few and largely set apart timepoints), or focused on small, homogeneous samples. The present study protocol presents a new, on-going study which uses new technologies to collect longitudinal data continuously from parents of multilingual, bilingual, and monolingual children. Our primary aim is to establish the developmental trajectories in Polish-British English and Polish-Norwegian bilingual children and Polish monolingual children aged 0−3 years with the use of mobile and web-based applications. These tools allow parents to report their children’s language development as it progresses, and allow us to characterize children’s performance in each language (the age of reaching particular language milestones). The project’s novelty rests on its use of mobile technologies to characterize the bilingual and monolingual developmental trajectory from the very first words to broader vocabulary and multiword combinations.
AB - Social sciences researchers emphasize that new technologies can overcome the limitations of small and homogenous samples. In research on early language development, which often uses parental reports, taking the testing online might be particularly compelling. Due to logistical limitations, previous studies on bilingual children have explored the language development trajectories in general (e.g., by including few and largely set apart timepoints), or focused on small, homogeneous samples. The present study protocol presents a new, on-going study which uses new technologies to collect longitudinal data continuously from parents of multilingual, bilingual, and monolingual children. Our primary aim is to establish the developmental trajectories in Polish-British English and Polish-Norwegian bilingual children and Polish monolingual children aged 0−3 years with the use of mobile and web-based applications. These tools allow parents to report their children’s language development as it progresses, and allow us to characterize children’s performance in each language (the age of reaching particular language milestones). The project’s novelty rests on its use of mobile technologies to characterize the bilingual and monolingual developmental trajectory from the very first words to broader vocabulary and multiword combinations.
KW - language development
KW - bilingualism
KW - vocabulary development
KW - language milestones
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph19053067
DO - 10.3390/ijerph19053067
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
SN - 1660-4601
IS - 5
M1 - e3067
ER -