Table 2.

Correlation between the six variables for CSL learners with elementary, intermediate, and advanced proficiency.

Variables	Elementary (n = 24)					Intermediate (n = 30)					Advanced (n = 28)
	2	3	4	5	6	2	3	4	5	6	2	3	4	5	6
1. Decoding accuracy (DA)	0.83***	0.33	0.71***	0.40*	0.49*	0.35*	0.24	0.53**	0.54**	0.43*	0.42*	0.62***	0.70***	0.57**	0.72***
2. Decoding fluency (DF)		0.55**	0.57**	0.40*	0.49*		0.28	−0.11	0.11	0.11		0.46*	0.13	0.11	0.31
3. Word segmentation (WS)			0.31	−0.10	0.47*			0.30	0.19	0.43*			0.26	0.45*	0.71***
4. Meaning access (MA)				0.30	0.56**				0.22	0.73***				0.78***	0.55**
5. Listening comprehension (LC)					0.08					0.28					0.70***
6. Reading comprehension (RC)

^*p < 0.05;

^**p < 0.01;

^***p < 0.001.