Autor según el artículo: Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni; Kraemer, Ulrike M.; Lorenzo-Seve, Urbano; Festman, Julia; Muente, Thomas F.;
Departamento: Psicologia
Autor/es de la URV: Lorenzo Seva, Urbano
Palabras clave: Young Speech Psychometric Natural language switching Model Methodologies Interference Executive control Cost Cognitive control Brain Bilinguals Bilingualism Activation
Resumen: Language switching is omnipresent in bilingual individuals. In fact, the ability to switch languages (code switching) is a very fast, efficient, and flexible process that seems to be a fundamental aspect of bilingual language processing. In this study, we aimed to characterize psychometrically self-perceived individual differences in language switching and to create a reliable measure of this behavioral pattern by introducing a bilingual switching questionnaire. As a working hypothesis based on the previous literature about code switching, we decomposed language switching into four constructs: (i) L1 switching tendencies (the tendency to switch to L1; L1-switch); (ii) L2 switching tendencies (L2-switch); (iii) contextual switch, which indexes the frequency of switches usually triggered by a particular situation, topic, or environment; and (iv) unintended switch, which measures the lack of intention and awareness of the language switches. A total of 582 Spanish-Catalan bilingual university students were studied. Twelve items were selected (three for each construct). The correlation matrix was factor-analyzed using minimum rank factor analysis followed by oblique direct oblimin rotation. The overall proportion of common variance explained by the four extracted factors was 0.86. Finally, to assess the external validity of the individual differences scored with the new questionnaire, we evaluated the correlations between these measures and several psychometric (language proficiency) and behavioral measures related to cognitive and attentional control. The present study highlights the importance of evaluating individual differences in language switching using self-assessment instruments when studying the interface between cognitive control and bilingualism.
Áreas temáticas: Saúde coletiva Psychology, multidisciplinary Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Nutrição Medicina ii Medicina i Linguística e literatura Interdisciplinar General psychology Filosofía Ensino Engenharias iv Enfermagem Educação física Educação Economia Ciencias sociales Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência da computação Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física Artes Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Direcció de correo del autor: urbano.lorenzo@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-5369-3099
Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-07-27
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00388/full
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Frontiers In Psychology. 2 (388):
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni; Kraemer, Ulrike M.; Lorenzo-Seve, Urbano; Festman, Julia; Muente, Thomas F.; (2012). Self-assessment of individual differences in language switching. Frontiers In Psychology, 2(388), -. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00388
DOI del artículo: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00388
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2012
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications