The thematic coding of heritage bilinguals’ open end responses

In order to better understand the language attitudes and experiences heritage bilinguals have, and how these may impact their performance in a behavioral task, participants in my thesis studies were asked to answer open ended questions. This talk will discuss the process of thematically coding the responses, as well as the analysis done on the thematic coding to better understand patterns within participants as well as to see if there were correlations with their attitudes and their performance in the behavioral task.