The current paper describes a study that sought to determine the beliefs, practices, and needs of parents living in Montreal, Quebec, who were raising their children bi/multilingually. (N = 27) participated total nine focus group individual interviews which they discussed family language policies (language ideologies, actions taken maintain language). Through rounds deductive inductive coding analysis, regarding English and/or French compared with heritage languages. participants' further...

Bilingual infants vary in when, how, and how often they hear each of their languages. Variables such as the particular languages exposure, community context, onset amount socioeconomic status are crucial for describing any bilingual infant sample. Parent report is an effective approach gathering data about infants’ language experience. However, its quality highly dependent on information elicited. This paper introduces a Multilingual Approach to Language Estimates (MAPLE). MAPLE promotes...

This study asked how bilingual parents read to their children in two languages. Data were collected Montreal, Quebec, where French and English are spoken widely. Parents three books different formats: dominant language, non-dominant books. Parents' quality quantity of reading any language was stable across formats, but use highest with written that language. Overall, relied most on the during story discussion provided high-quality interactions both languages, regardless proficiency

This is the first large-scale, quantitative study of evaluative dimensions and potential predictors Quebec-based parents’ attitudes towards childhood multilingualism. Such are assumed to constitute a determinant parental language choices, thereby influence children's multilingual development. The newly-developed Attitudes Childhood Multilingualism Questionnaire was used gather data from 825 participants raising an infant/toddler aged 0–4 years with multiple languages in home. results...

Many parents express concerns for their children's multilingual development, yet little is known about the nature and strength of these – especially among in societies. This pre-registered, questionnaire-based study addresses this gap by examining 821 Quebec-based raising infants toddlers aged 0–4 years with multiple languages home. Factor analysis parents' Likert-scale responses revealed that had (1) regarding effect multilingualism on cognition, (2) exposure to attainment fluency...

Abstract Reading stories to children provides opportunities for word learning. Bilingual children, however, encounter new words in each of their languages during shared storybook reading, and the way which these are presented can vary. We compared learning from two types bilingual book materials: single‐language books books. Five‐year‐old English‐French bilinguals ( n = 67) were randomly assigned hear an original story a balanced experimenter one formats. Children's English French labels...

Aims and objectives: Many children grow up in bilingual families; however, little is known about how these families use their two languages home reading practices. The goal of this study was to examine the effect language proficiency on shared storybook practices families. Methodology: We gathered questionnaire data activities French–English with 5-year-old ( n = 66) who had different levels each language. Data analyses: compared environment, parent practices, child learning interest books...

This is the first large-scale study of resources as a form language management – that is, way influencing children's practices. We introduce distinction between child-directed (i.e. those providing parents with opportunities to engage their children in languages they are transmitting) and parent-directed information about multilingual child-rearing). focused on awareness use of, well desire for, such among Québec-based (n = 819) raising infants/toddlers (0-4 years) multiple home. Data were...

High-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) reactivity was proposed as a vulnerability factor for stress-induced sleep disturbances. Its effect may be amplified among individuals with high trait worry or reactivity. This study evaluated whether HF-HRV to induction, reactivity, and predict increases in disturbances response academic stress, naturalistic stressor. A longitudinal following 102 undergraduate students during an semester well-defined periods of lower higher stress conducted....

Family language policies encompass three components: beliefs, practices, and management. This study focuses on which we approach from an attitudes perspective, presenting a corpus-assisted discourse of parental towards childhood multilingualism. Based corpora (over 30,000 words) comprising 742 Quebec-based parents’ responses to open-ended survey question, analyse frequencies, collocations, concordance lines, longer text segments. Our findings confirm the multidimensionality attitudes,...

Bilingual infants vary in when, how, and how often they hear each of their languages. Variables such as the particular languages exposure, community context, onset amount socioeconomic status are crucial for describing any bilingual infant sample. Parent report is an effective approach gathering data about infants’ language experience, however, its quality highly dependent on information elicited. This paper introduces a Multilingual Approach to Language Estimates (MAPLE). MAPLE promotes...

Reading stories to children provides opportunities for word learning. Bilingual encounter new words in each of their languages during shared storybook reading, but the way which they them can vary. We compared learning from two types bilingual book materials: typical single-language books (i.e., copies same book, a different language), and one copy with text both on page). Five-year-old French-English bilinguals (n = 67) who were either proficient or second-language learners randomly...

Many parents express concerns for their children’s multilingual development, yet little is known about the nature and strength of these – especially among in societies. This pre-registered, questionnaire-based study addresses this gap by examining 821 Quebec-based raising infants toddlers aged 0-4 years with multiple languages home. Factor analysis parents’ Likert-scale responses revealed that had (1) regarding effect multilingualism on cognition, (2) exposure to attainment fluency...

This pre-print presents a study of 24 French-English bilingual parents reading books different formats (single-language in the parent's dominant language, single-language non-dominant language or bilingual) to their pre-school-aged children. We analyzed parents' interactions terms quantity (number words) and quality (production dialogic strategies), considering both languages separately together. present results these analyses discuss potential implications for families' efforts support...

The current paper describes a study that sought to determine the beliefs, practices, and needs of parents living in Montreal, Quebec, who were raising their children bi/multilingually. (N = 27) participated total nine focus group individual interviews which they discussed family language policies (language ideologies, actions taken maintain language). Through rounds deductive inductive coding analysis, regarding English and/or French compared with heritage languages. participants’ further...

Abstract Bilingualism is hard to define, measure, and study. Sparked by the “replication crisis” in social sciences, a recent discussion on advantages of open science gaining momentum. Here, we join this debate argue that bilingualism research would greatly benefit from embracing science. We do so unique way, presenting six fictional stories illustrate how practices – sharing preprints, materials, code, data; pre-registering studies; joining large-scale collaborations can strengthen further...

Many parents have concerns about raising their children with multiple languages. However, there is a paucity of previous research regarding parental multilingual child-rearing, particularly in societies. We address this gap corpus-assisted discourse study child-rearing Quebec, Canada. created two corpora comprising 641 parents’ responses to an open-ended survey question main infants/toddlers (English corpus: 12,502 words, French 9,360 words). examined frequencies, collocations, concordance...

Many parents have concerns about raising their children with multiple languages. However, there is a paucity of previous research regarding parental multilingual child-rearing, particularly in societies. We address this gap corpus-assisted discourse study child-rearing Quebec, Canada. created two corpora comprising 641 parents' responses to an open-ended survey question main infants/toddlers (English corpus: 12,502 words, French 9,360 words). examined frequencies, collocations, concordance...

Individuals with ADHD and bilinguals have each been considered vulnerable to vocabulary deficits compared their peers. However, the interaction of bilingualism in affecting both languages has yet be studied. We tested whether a 'double disadvantage' exists for by measuring vocabularies 391 young adults who spoke English and/or French. In Study 1, we categorized them into one four groups: monolinguals without ADHD. had larger than those ADHD, alike, languages. 2, status were assessed...

Aims and objectives: Many children grow up in bilingual families; however, little is known about how these families use their two languages home reading practices. The goal of this study was to examine the effect language proficiency on shared storybook practices families. Methodology: We gathered questionnaire data activities French–English with 5-year-old (N = 66) who had different levels each language. Data analyses: compared environment, parent practices, child learning interest books...

This is the first large-scale study of resources as a form language management – that is, way influencing children’s practices. We introduce distinction between child-directed (i.e., those providing parents with opportunities to engage their children in languages they are transmitting) and parent-directed information about multilingual child-rearing). focused on awareness use of, well desire for, such among Québec-based (n=819) raising infants/toddlers (0-4 years) multiple home. Data were...

This is the first large-scale, quantitative study of evaluative dimensions and potential predictors Quebec-based parents’ attitudes towards childhood multilingualism. Such are assumed to constitute a determinant parental language choices, thereby influence children’s multilingual development. The newly-developed Attitudes Childhood Multilingualism Questionnaire was used gather data from 826 participants raising an infant/toddler aged 0-4 years with multiple languages. results reveal three...

Bilingualism is hard to define, measure, and study. Sparked by the “replication crisis” in social sciences, a recent discussion on advantages of open science gaining momentum. Here, we join this debate argue that bilingualism research would greatly benefit from embracing science. We do so unique way, presenting six fictional stories illustrate how practices – sharing preprints, materials, code, data; pre registering studies; joining large-scale collaborations can strengthen further improve...