In my area of study, I had developed a bilingual survey to get feedback from my population. However, some of the population understood English but not too much. I proceeded to translate the survey to Bahasa Malaysia and had it pre-tested among a few translators and then pilot tested it using cronbach alpha. I then circulated the bilingual survey to my population and in there, I had also used bi-variate correlation analysis to indicate the level of significance in the correlations between theoretically important constructs. Is this appropriate or could you please suggest other methods of validation for a bilingual questionnaire wherein both languages are present ?
Hi Chan,
Not sure from the statement:
"I proceeded to translate the survey to Bahasa Malaysia and had it pre-tested among a few translators and then pilot tested it using cronbach alpha"
also include the back-translation i.e. re-translate back from target language to source language and evaluate any differences between the original source language vs re-translated source language? Normally this is a good practice we adhere to. All the best.
Regards,
Fung
If you Google "bilingual survey sil" you might find some helpful papers.
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