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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 29.
Published in final edited form as: Biling (Camb Engl). 2012 Jul;15(3):594–615. doi: 10.1017/S1366728911000332

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