The L'ART Research Assistant: A digital toolkit for bilingualism and language attitude research

Breit, Florian, Tamburelli, Marco, Gruffydd, Ianto ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6242-9411 and Brasca, Lissander 2023. The L'ART Research Assistant: A digital toolkit for bilingualism and language attitude research. [Working Paper]. Bangor University.

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the L’ART Research Assistant, a freely available open-source app to aid researchers in the collection, storage and transfer of data for research in bilingualism and language attitudes, with a particular focus on bilingual populations who speak a majority language and a regional / minority / minoritized language. The current version of the app [version 0.4.1] implements the following four tools: 1. A digital informed consent tool (see section 5 for details). 2. A digital adaptation of the Language and Social Background Questionnaire, or LSBQ (Anderson, Mak, Keyvani Chahi & Bialystok, 2018), which we term the LSBQe (“e” for electronic). 3. A digital implementation of the Attitudes towards Languages Questionnaire or AToL (Schoel, Roessel et al., 2012), which we call AToL-C (“C” for continuous, as our implementation uses continuous rather than ordinal scales). 4. A digital tool for measuring language attitudes via the speaker evaluation paradigm. This tool enables users to run several evaluations of audio guises such as the Matched Guise Technique (Lambert, Hodgson, Gardner and Fillenbaum, 1960) and the Verbal Guise Test (e.g., Markel et al, 1967). Due to its flexibility as either MGT or VGT, we named this tool ‘Audio Guise Task’, or AGT for short. 5. A simple memory game to be employed as a distractor in a series of tasks

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Date Type:	Completion
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Bangor University
Related URLs:	Project
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 November 2024
Date of Acceptance:	4 May 2023
Last Modified:	26 Nov 2024 09:34
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/170381

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