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Table 8 Skill-level differences and percentages of participants in each category (%) in Study 1

From: Skill profiles of Japanese English learners and reasons for uneven patterns

Dataset

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Level difference

Profile type example

GTEC CBT: seniora

TOEFL Junior: seniorb

TOEFL Junior: Univ.c

TEAP: Univ.d

TOEFL iBT: Univ.d

TOEIC: Univ.e

TOEFL iBT: Univ. 2014f

TOEFL iBT: Univ. 2015g

TOEFL iBT: Univ. 2016g

TOEFL iBT: Univ. 2017h

0

Flat

18.94

17.90

9.40

29.00

9.00

9.43

3.15

1.60

9.89

6.53

1

SW<LR; LSW<R

68.53

66.74

52.56

64.00

70.00

65.09

55.11

56.34

64.89

57.98

2

S<LW<R; S<W<LR

12.01

14.93

32.05

7.00

21.00

23.58

40.16

38.89

22.24

34.03

3

S<W<L<R; W<S<L<R

0.46

0.43

5.99

0

0

1.90

1.58

3.17

2.98

1.46

4

S<<W<L<R

0.06

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

 

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100