Table 4. Descriptive Statistics for Properties of Children's Exposure to English and Spanish (N=29).
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M (SD) | Range | Mode | M (SD) | Range | Mode | ||
Percent of timea | 34.06% (23.25) | 0 – 82 | 29.06% (24.77) | 0 – 77 | .62 | ||
Number of single language conversational contextsb | 1.21 (1.86) | 0 – 8 | 0 | 1.17 (1.77) | 0 – 6 | 0 | .06 |
Number of single language conversational partnersb | .90 (1.45) | 0 – 6 | 0 | .45 (.83) | 0 – 3 | 0 | 1.45 |
Number of different speakers as sources of exposureb | 4.38 (2.37) | 0 – 10 | 4 | 3.38 (2.19) | 0 – 10 | 3 | 1.61 |
Percent of language exposure from native speakersc | 44.03% (38.40) | 0 – 100 | 83.16% (27.28) | 0 – 100 | -3.59**d |
Counted in 30-minute blocks in which only one language was addressed to the child. In 37% of blocks, English and Spanish were both used.
Across the seven days of diary recording.
The percentages were calculated based on data from the 24 children who had both English-only and Spanish-only exposure.
**p = .002 (two-tailed), d = .73.