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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biling (Camb Engl). 2014 Apr;17(2):364–383. doi: 10.1017/S1366728913000424

Table 4.

Percentage of young bilinguals in Experiment 1 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.

Self-rated as Mandarin dominant(n=14)

Objectively Mandarin-dominant Objectively balanced Objective English-dominant
Oral proficiency interview 93% 0% 7%
(35.0%)
Multilingual naming test 64% 29% 7%
(0% - 4.4%) (7.4%)
Boston naming test 86% 7% 7%
(-3.3%) (5.0%)
Self-rated as Balanced(n=6)
Oral proficiency interview 17% 33% 50%
(-15.0%) (15.0% - 20.0%)
Multilingual naming test 17% 17% 67%
(-20.6%) (10.3% - 17.6%)
Boston naming test 17% 0% 83%
(-26.7%) (16.7% - 41.7%)
Self-rated as English-dominant(n=42)
Oral proficiency interview 12% 10% 79%
((-10.0%) - (-5%)) 0%
Multilingual naming test 0% 12% 88%
(-4.4%)-(4.4%)
Boston naming test 0% 5% 95%
((-3.3%) - (1.7%))