Parental Report via a Mobile App in the Context of Early Language Trajectories: StarWords Study Protocol

Karolina Mieszkowska, Grzegorz Krajewski, Krzysztof Sobota, Agnieszka Dynak, Joanna Kolak, Magdalena Krysztofiak, Barbara Łukomska, Magdalena Łuniewska, Nina Gram Garmann, Pernille Hansen, Anna Sara Hexeberg Romøren, Hanne Gram Simonsen, Katie Alcock, Napoleon Katsos and Ewa Haman
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Karolina Mieszkowska: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland
Grzegorz Krajewski: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland
Krzysztof Sobota: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland
Agnieszka Dynak: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland
Joanna Kolak: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland
Magdalena Krysztofiak: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland
Barbara Łukomska: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland
Magdalena Łuniewska: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland
Nina Gram Garmann: Department of Early Childhood Education, Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, 0176 Oslo, Norway
Pernille Hansen: MultiLing, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway
Anna Sara Hexeberg Romøren: Department of Early Childhood Education, Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, 0176 Oslo, Norway
Hanne Gram Simonsen: MultiLing, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway
Katie Alcock: Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YF, UK
Napoleon Katsos: Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DP, UK
Ewa Haman: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 5, 1-18

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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