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 |