Response set:
1–Totally disagree
2–Mostly disagree
3–Doubt/unsure
4–Mostly agree
5–Strongly agree
- I feel comfortable speaking English
- I feel comfortable reading English
- I feel comfortable speaking Spanish
- I feel comfortable reading Spanish
Spanish Version
Response set:
1–Totalmente en desacuerdo
2–En desacuerdo en su mayor parte
3–En duda
4–De acuerdo en su mayor parte
5–Totalmente de acuerdo
- Me siento cómodo cuando hablo en inglés
- Me siento cómodo leer en inglés
- Me siento cómodo cuando hablo en español
- Me siento cómodo leer en español
Spanish and English Measures Published In:
Guntzviller, L. M., Jensen, J. D., King, A. J., & Davis, L. A. (2011). The foreign language anxiety in a medical office scale: Developing and validating a measurement tool for Spanish-speaking individuals. Journal of Health Communication, 16, 849-869. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2011.561917
Description on p. 855:
“Four items created for this study assessed participant comfort in speaking and reading English and Spanish (see Appendix D). All four items were measured on a 5-point Likert-type scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). The two items measuring comfort reading and speaking Spanish were averaged and demonstrated excellent internal reliability (Cronbach’s α =.97). The two items assessing comfort reading and speaking English were averaged and demonstrated good internal reliability (Cronbach’s α =.83).”