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For some languages, the MAIN materials have been recently adapted to fulfil the following requirements: they have been (a) updated to be parallel to the latest English version that was corrected and approved in January 2015, and (b) verified by a process of back-translation by at least three persons proficient in English and the language of adaptation. Please contact the authors cited for each language version if you have questions.

WARNING: Please be advised that some of the language adaptations are based on older versions of MAIN (2012). Please contact the authors cited for each language for further information. 

Different authors have been responsible for the individual language adaptations of MAIN, and they have been involved in the materials development process to different degrees. Some language versions were extensively piloted and revised before launching, others were not. Before using MAIN for a particular language, we advise you to contact the authors cited to find out about adaptation/translation, piloting and use of MAIN. In order to evaluate the quality of a particular language version, you might want to find out about the following:

Adaptation/translation:

  • WHO did the translation/adaptation? Was it done by several people? Were they native speakers? Were they linguists? Were the versions back-translated and compared to the English original? What happened afterwards? When did this process of adaptation take place? Is there any written documentation of this process?

Piloting:

  • Was this language version piloted? If yes, what happened after the piloting? Was the version corrected afterwards? Is there any written documentation of this process?

Use:

  • Has this language version been used? With how many children and which age(s)? How did it work? Are there any (peer-reviewed) publications of the results?

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