<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zhang, Haiwei</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jiang,Yuhao</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jing Yang</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Investigating the Influence of Different L2 Proficiency Measures on Research Results</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SAGE open</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chinese</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chinese proficiency test</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">College Students</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">different L2 proficiency measures</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evaluation Methods</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Foreign Countries</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">HSK test</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Interdisciplinary</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Language Proficiency</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Language Tests</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Phonological Awareness</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Second Language Learning</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Social Sciences</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Social Sciences - Other Topics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Test Content</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244020920604</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10</style></volume><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2158-2440</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Researchers have used different measures to examine participants’ second-language (L2) proficiency, yet it remains unclear how these different measures influence research results on the effect of L2 proficiency on the target variable. The present research explored the modulation effect of four different measures of L2 Chinese proficiency on Chinese phonological awareness (PA). Eighty-four L2 learners of Chinese who spoke English or Arabic as their first language completed four different measures of Chinese proficiency: a self-report measure of years of instruction in Chinese, a simplified Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK; a standardized Chinese language proficiency test), a reading comprehension test, and a Chinese character recognition test. The overall results of t tests and multiple regression analysis revealed that different measures of L2 proficiency led to various findings on the effect of L2 proficiency on Chinese PA. Compared with the other three measures, the HSK, a comprehensive examination of L2 Chinese proficiency, yielded the most consistent and reliable results with the largest effect size. Our findings contribute to the current understanding of L2 proficiency measures and to future efforts for the improvement of L2 proficiency tests for research purposes.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>