Table 4.
Pearson bivariate correlations between self-rated proficiency and objective measures of proficiency in each language, language dominance difference scores, and bilingual index scores for young bilinguals in Experiment 1 (n = 52).
| English | Spanish | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| self-rating | oral-proficiency interview | Multilingual Naming Test | self-rating | oral-proficiency interview | Multilingual Naming Test | ||
| oral-proficiency interview | 0.281 | oral-proficiency interview | 0.425 | ||||
| p-value | 0.043 | p-value | 0.002 | ||||
| Multilingual Naming Test | 0.460 | 0.397 | Multilingual Naming Test | 0.520 | 0.518 | ||
| p-value | 0.001 | 0.004 | p-value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||
| Boston Naming Test | 0.503 | 0.359 | 0.855 | Boston Naming Test | 0.498 | 0.495 | 0.868 |
| p-value | < 0.001 | 0.009 | < 0.001 | p-value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |
| Language Dominance (English minus Spanish) | Bilingual Index Scores | ||||||
| self-rating | oral-proficiency interview | Multilingual Naming Test | self-rating | oral-proficiency interview | Multilingual Naming Test | ||
| oral-proficiency interview | 0.585 | oral-proficiency interview | 0.268 | ||||
| p-value | < 0.001 | p-value | 0.055 | ||||
| Multilingual Naming Test | 0.605 | 0.794 | Multilingual Naming Test | 0.256 | 0.705 | ||
| p-value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | p-value | 0.067 | < 0.001 | ||
| Boston Naming Test | 0.622 | 0.751 | 0.893 | Boston Naming Test | 0.197 | 0.669 | 0.858 |
| p-value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | p-value | 0.161 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 |