Nameless-Servant t1_jaexkp1 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 11:06 PM

So what qualifies as bilingual vs monolingual in this case? If I know a little bit of a second language, but I’m nowhere near fluent, which do I qualify as for the purposes of this study? Or would that disqualify me as a candidate?

Naculabulakids OP t1_jaeyt9l wrote on February 28, 2023 at 11:14 PM

The monolingual category describes those who are fluent in one language and have minimal knowledge in another language e.g. the person who remembers how to conjugate a few verbs or even a tense or two or have a very basic conversation in Spanish is considered monolingual in my study

Bilinguals are those who are fluent in 2 languages. They are comfortable expressing and understanding most ideas in 2 languages

I disqualify those who I consider grey-area participants. Those who have an intermediate knowledge of another language e.g. someone who can have conversations in a second language about many topics but would struggle to express more complex ideas. In terms of Spanish, I would say a person with intermediate knowledge could conjugate most tenses but would struggle in the more difficult aspects of speaking such as the subjunctive forms or idioms