Lexical measures as a proxy for bilingual language dominance?

被引:6
作者
Bonvin, Audrey [1 ]
Brugger, Ladina [2 ]
Berthele, Raphael [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Fribourg, Fac Arts & Humanities, Multilingualism & Foreign Language Educ, Fribourg, Switzerland
[2] Bern Univ Teacher Educ, Bern, Switzerland
[3] Univ Fribourg, Inst Multilingualism, Fribourg, Switzerland
[4] Univ Teacher Educ Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
来源
IRAL-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING | 2023年 / 61卷 / 02期
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会;
关键词
adult bilinguals; bilingual language profile; language dominance; LexTALE; vocabulary; LEXTALE; SPANISH; SKILLS; QUICK;
D O I
10.1515/iral-2020-0093
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
In bilingualism research, language dominance has been conceptualized and operationalized in different ways. In this paper, we discuss this notion and investigate to what extent language dominance is congruent with vocabulary knowledge in each language. First, we summarize definitions and operationalizations of language dominance. We show that comparison of proficiency related measures is a common operationalization of language dominance. Yet, the importance of attitudinal, biographical, or use-related components is often stressed. Such components are included in survey instruments like the Bilingual Language Profile (BLP). Second, we analyze data on language profiles of 225 French/German and 70 Italian/German adult bilinguals. Correlation and regression models are fitted to investigate the relation between the multi-dimensional dominance metric (BLP) results and results based on lexical tests (LexTALE for German and French, the VSPT from Dialang for Italian). The results reveal a strong linear association between BLP and LexTale.
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页码:257 / 285
页数:29
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