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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 8.

Percentage of older bilinguals in Experiment 2 whose 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.

Older Bilinguals
Self-rated as Spanish-Dominant (n=10):
Objectively
Spanish-dominant 		Objectively
Balanced 		Objectively
English-dominant
Proficiency Interview (OPI) 80% 10%
(0%)		 10%
(5.0%)
Multilingual Naming Test 50% 30%
(−2.9% – 0%)		 20%
(14.7% −16.2%)
Self-rated as Balanced (n=3):
Objectively
Spanish-dominant 		Objectively
Balanced 		Objectively
English-dominant
Proficiency Interview (OPI) 0% 33% 67%
(20.0% – 30.0%)
Multilingual Naming Test 0% 33% 67%
(5.9% – 25.0%)
Self-rated as English-dominant (n=7):
Objectively
Spanish-dominant 		Objectively
Balanced 		Objectively
English-dominant
Proficiency Interview (OPI) 0% 0% 100%
Multilingual Naming Test 0% 0% 100%