Language History Questionnaire (version 3)

Authors: Ping LiSara SepanskiXiaowei ZhaoFan ZhangErlfang TsaiBrendan PulsAnya Yu
Updated: Tue 24 November 2020
Source: https://lhq3.herokuapp.com/
Type: questionnaire
Languages: cross-linguistic
Keywords: languagelinguisticsmultilinguialismeducation
Open Access: yes
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Publications: Li, P., Zhang, F., Yu, A., & Zhao, X. (2020). Language History Questionnaire (LHQ3): An enhanced tool for assessing multilingual experience. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(5), 938-944. ; Li, P. Zhang, F., Tsai, E., Puls, B. (2013). Language history questionnaire (LHQ 2.0): A new dynamic web-based research tool. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17(3), 673-680. doi:10.1017/S1366728913000606 ; Li, P., Sepanski, S. & Zhao, X. Language history questionnaire: A Web-based interface for bilingual research. Behavior Research Methods 38, 202–210 (2006). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03192770
Citation: Li, P. & Guo, Z. (2020). The Language History Questionnaire 3. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Brain, Language, and Computation Lab. https://lhq3.herokuapp.com/
Summary:

Language history questionnaire (LHQ) is an important tool for assessing language learners' linguistic background, the context and habits of language use, proficiency in multiple languages, and the dominance and cultural identity of the languages acquired. Items in the LHQ included questions about the participants’ language history (e.g., age of second language acquisition and length of second language education), self-rated first- and second-language proficiency, and language usage in the home environment. LHQ3 allows researchers to assign different weights to the modules when calculating the aggregated scores, addressing the issue of different focuses that different researchers put on multilingual speakers’ language usage and background.