Parental Report via a Mobile App in the Context of Early Language Trajectories: StarWords Study Protocol.
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Authors
Krajewski, Grzegorz
Sobota, Krzysztof
Dynak, Agnieszka
Kolak, Joanna
Krysztofiak, Magdalena
Garmann, Nina Gram
Hansen, Pernille
Romøren, Anna Sara Hexeberg
Publication Date
2022-03-05Journal Title
International journal of environmental research and public health
ISSN
1661-7827
Volume
19
Issue
5
Language
eng
Type
Article
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Mieszkowska, K., Krajewski, G., Sobota, K., Dynak, A., Kolak, J., Krysztofiak, M., Łukomska, B., et al. (2022). Parental Report via a Mobile App in the Context of Early Language Trajectories: StarWords Study Protocol.. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19 (5) https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053067
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Language Development, Bilingualism, Vocabulary Development, Language Milestones
Sponsorship
Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (501-D125-01-1250000)
National Science Center (2018/31/B/HS6/03916)
Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (subsidy for the maintenance and development of research potential) (501-D125-01-1250000)
Identifiers
35270756, PMC8910428
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053067
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/335969
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