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Language History 
Questionnaire
This questionnaire is designed 
to give us a better understanding of your experience with languages. 
We ask that you be as accurate and thorough as possible when answering the 
following questions and thank you for your participation in this study. 
If at any time, you need more 
space to write, please feel free to use the extra space available in question 26, 
entitled Additional Information, of this document. Please put the question 
number beside your responses.
 
     Sex:               
Age (in years)             
    Handedness :  
      Native country 
                               
Years spent in the U.S.                            
Years spent in U.S. schools 
1.) Do you have any known 
visual or hearing problems (corrected or uncorrected)? 
         
2.) What is your first 
language (i.e., language first spoken)?  If more 
than one, please briefly describe the situations in which each language was 
used.
         
Which language (if any) do you 
consider your second language? 
           
3.) If you have ever lived in 
or visited a country where languages other than your native language are spoken, 
please indicate below the name of the country (countries), the duration of your 
stay in number of months, and which languages you used while you were in the 
country (please indicate if you were spoken to in a language other than your 
first language, even if you never actually spoke that language).
4.) List below, from most 
fluent to least fluent, all of the languages to which 
you have been exposed. Also specify the age in years at which you began to learn 
the language and the context in which you learned it.  For example, 
"English, birth, home".  Include all languages 
to which you have been exposed, although you may never have had formal training 
in them and may not be able to read, speak or write them. 
Please remember to list your native language(s).
5.) What languages were spoken 
in your home while you were a child and by whom?  
         
6.) How many years have you 
studied your second language?  Please indicate the setting(s) in which you 
have had experience with the language (i.e., classroom, with friends, foreign 
country...)
        Number of years: 
        
Setting(s)             
7)  Are you currently 
enrolled in any language courses ? (Any course either 
instructed in a foreign language or designed to teach a foreign language). If 
so, please list the course number(s) below, along with the title of the 
course.
8.) What languages other than your first language do you speak proficiently?
9.) What languages other than your first language do you read proficiently?
10.) What languages other than your first language do you write proficiently?
11.) What languages other than your first language do you understand when they're spoken?
** For 
the next eight questions, please check below the number of your 
response.**
12.) Please list the 
language(s) the following people speak.
Mother: 
Father: 
Closest Friend: 
13.) Please rate your first language reading 
proficiency on a ten-point scale
14.) Please rate your second language reading 
proficiency on a ten-point scale
15.) Please rate your first language writing 
proficiency on a ten-point scale
16.) Please rate your second language writing 
proficiency on a ten-point scale
17.) Please rate your first language conversational 
fluency on a ten-point scale
18.) Please rate your second language conversational 
fluency on a ten-point scale
 
19.) Please rate your first language speech 
comprehension ability on a ten-point scale
20.) Please rate your French speech comprehension 
ability on a ten-point scale
 
 
21.) How would you rate your foreign language learning 
skills? Please choose your response.
22.) When learning a new language, which of the 
following do you find the easiest to learn? 
   Please rank the following from 1 to 4 
(1=easiest; 4=hardest).
 
 
23.) Have you ever been immersed in your second language 
culture(please select)?
 
 
24.) Please compare learning a second language in an 
immersion environment with one learning in a classroom environment (Which one is 
easier? In which did you learn more? ...) Please comment about the difference 
between your various learning experiences.
 
	25.) Is there anything else about your language 
background that you would like to comment on? Please feel free to make comments 
about things which were not covered on this questionnaire.
26.) Additional Information.