Language Experience Overview (LEO) Report Generator

In Singapore, more than 90% of adults are literate in at least 2 languages (Singapore Census, 2010). Singaporean families often involve grandparents in the care of young children, and one in five families employ a live-in foreign worker for domestic help (Singapore Ministry of Manpower, 2020). Infants in Singapore typically hear two or more languages from each parent, two-to-three languages from their grandparents (Woon, 2018), and possibly more from a domestic helper. Given this complexity, existing models of balanced/unbalanced or dominant/non-dominant bilingualism are insufficient for describing the rich tapestry of multilingual experiences. In order to capture this variety, we created a flexible multilingual tool, the Language Experience Overview (LEO). This multivariate multilingual tool combines estimates of care time and language-use ratios with language profiles of each caregiver. Importantly, the LEO Report visualises the results in parent-friendly feedback.

blipleo is a Python package to generate Language Experience Overview (LEO) report.

Citation: Woon, Fei Ting; Le, Tuan Anh; binte Amran, Shaza; Ang, Wen Xin; Styles, Suzy J, 2021, "Language Experiences Overview (LEO)", https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/XQUFEW, DR-NTU (Data), V1

Installation

blipleo package is available on the Python official package index PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/blipleo/

It can be installed on Python 3.6 or later using pip

pip install blipleo

Notes: blipleo requires Inkscape to generate PDF files, which can be downloaded freely at https://inkscape.org/release/

Usage

To generate a LEO report, prepare a LEO json data file (For sample see: data/baby_test.json) and use the following commands:

import blipleo
leo = blipleo.read_json('./data/baby_test.json')
blipleo.generate_leo(leo, './data')

The generated LEO report looks like this: https://github.com/BLIPNTU/LEO/blob/main/data/baby_test.pdf

License

• The blipleo package is licensed under GPL version 3.0
• The LEO template graphic vector files under templates folder are licensed under CC-BY-NC 4.0

Developers

• blipleo is a free software, source code is available on Github: https://github.com/BLIPNTU/LEO
• LEO research archive: https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/XQUFEW
• Maintainer: Le Tuan Anh

Contact

For more information, please contact Fei Ting Woon at feitingwoon@ntu.edu.sg