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Warsaw 2009: Sessions

Language, Communication, and Research in the Comparative Context

Planned on Thursday, 11:00 - 13:00 in Room 2.3.

Coordinators:

Janet Harkness; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, United States

Description:

The session focuses on language-related challenges in cross-cultural, cross-lingual research. Papers can focus on more quantitative research (e.g., survey-based) or research more qualitative in orientation (e.g., ethnography, discourse analysis, cognitive pretesting). We expect topics are likely to include some standard issues for survey research such as translation, adaptation, instrument comparability but we welcome papers related to quality issues, technological developments, language harmonization issues, and a number of design and assessment topics, including theoretical considerations related to the notion of comparability.

Accepted presentations:

Scale Effects and Order Effects in a Foreign Language Questionnaire -- H. Tobi, L. Maas, T. Glasner
Telephone interviews, Swiss style: patterns of adaptation, for better or worse? -- I. Renschler, B. Kleiner, N. Fasel
Interpreted telephone surveys in Europe -- J. Harkness, A. Villar, Y. Kruse, L. Branden, B. Edwards, C. Steele