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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 7.

Pearson bivariate correlations between self-rated and objective measures of ability in each language, of language dominance and bilingual index scores for older bilinguals in Experiment 2 (n = 20)

English Spanish
self-rating oral-proficiency
interview
self-rating oral-proficiency
interview
oral-proficiency interview 0.690 oral-proficiency interview 0.770
p-value 0.001 p-value 0.000
Multilingual Naming Test 0.786 0.649 Multilingual Naming Test 0.775 0.874
p-value 0.000 0.002 p-value 0.000 0.000
Language Dominance (English minus Spanish) Index Scores
self-rating oral-proficiency
interview
self-rating oral-proficiency
interview
oral-proficiency interview 0.794 oral-proficiency interview 0.396
p-value 0.000 p-value 0.084
Multilingual Naming Test 0.876 0.864 Multilingual Naming Test 0.586 0.473
p-value 0.000 0.000 p-value 0.007 0.035