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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 5.

Percentage of young bilinguals in Experiment 1whose self-rated language dominance matched or differed from objective measures of dominance. For cases in which self-ratings and objective classifications of dominance do not match the range of discrepancy in scores is indicated in parentheses.

Young Bilinguals
Self-rated as Spanish-Dominant (n=10):
Objectively
Spanish-dominant
Objectively
Balanced
Objectively
English-dominant
Proficiency Interview (OPI) 40% 50%
(0%)
10%
(10.0%)
Multilingual Naming Test 40% 20%
(−4.4% – (−2.9%))
40%
(5.9% – 11.8%)
Boston Naming Test 40% 0% 60%
(6.7% – 21.7%)
Self-rated as Balanced (n=7):
Objectively
Spanish-dominant
Objectively
Balanced
Objectively
English-dominant
Proficiency Interview (OPI) 0% 0% 100%
(5.0% – 15.0%)
Multilingual Naming Test 0% 0% 100%
(7.3% – 25.0%)
Boston Naming Test 0% 0% 100%
(16.7% – 41.7%)
Self-rated as English-dominant (n=35):
Objectively
Spanish-dominant
Objectively
Balanced
Objectively
English-dominant
Proficiency Interview (OPI) 3%
(−5.0%)
11%
(0%)
86%
Multilingual Naming Test 3%
(−7.4%)
6%
(1.5%)
91%
Boston Naming Test 0% 3%
(1.7%)
97%