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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Biling Educ Biling. 2011 Sep;14(5):489–511. doi: 10.1080/13670050.2010.529102

Table 3.

Correlations between parent and teacher proficiency rating and BESA scores for all children, Spanish dominant only, and English dominant only.

Semantics Morphosyntax

All children Score P value (N) Score P value (N)
Parent Span proficiency rating .254 <.001 (241) .273 <.001 (205)
Teacher Span proficiency rating .114 NS (155) .154 .02 (146)
Parent Eng proficiency rating .259 <.001 (277) .300 .001 (174)
Teacher Eng proficiency rating .177 .006 (149) .232 <.001 (133)
Spanish Dominant only
Parent Span proficiency rating .235 <.001 (218) .255 <.001 (189)
Teacher Span proficiency rating .135 .04 (143) .148 .03 (136)
Parent Eng proficiency rating .325 <.001 (92) .280 .004 (62)
Teacher Eng proficiency rating .319 .007 (43) −.011 NS (42)
English Dominant only
Parent Span proficiency rating .213 .001 (183) .279 <.001 (140)
Teacher Span proficiency rating .103 NS (120) −.271 .001 (102)
Parent Eng proficiency rating .329 .01 (59) .311 .01 (31)
Teacher Eng proficiency rating −.064 NS (22) .039 NS (19)