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Table 6 Skill profile types classified according to the lowest skills (%) 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

Lowest skill

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. 2016h

TOEFL iBT: Univ. 2017i

LSW

LSW<R

25.20

13.11

13.25

12.00

18.00

1.90

10.23

16.67

15.34

21.03

LRSW

Flat

18.94

17.90

9.40

29.00

9.00

9.43

3.15

1.59

9.95

6.52

SW

SW<LR

14.51

17.15

18.38

8.00

20.00

6.60

18.12

9.53

16.88

15.94

S

S<LW<R

9.65

20.40

40.60

12.00

3.00

39.62

44.07

50.80

32.78

36.23

W

W<S<L<R

8.97

5.79

7.69

6.00

17.00

0

0.79

0.79

0.74

0

L

L<W<RS

7.04

2.14

0.85

6.00

2.00

0

2.37

2.38

0.74

0

LS

LS<RW

6.03

5.72

3.85

6.00

1.00

6.60

14.96

11.9

10.74

13.05

LW

LW<S<<R

3.44

1.50

0

1.00

7.00

0

0

0

0

0

RSW

RSW<L

2.61

7.82

2.56

5.00

2.00

3.77

1.58

1.59

3.82

2.17

LRW

LRW<S

1.22

0.75

0

7.00

7.00

0

0

0.79

0

0

LRS

LRS<W

1.16

2.00

0

4.00

1.00

16.98

3.15

2.38

4.59

0.72

LR

LR<SW

0.50

0.51

0

1.00

3.00

0.95

0

0

0

0

RW

RW<LS

0.39

0.75

2.14

0

4.00

0.95

0

0.79

0

0

RS

RS<LW

0.28

2.82

0.85

2.00

1.00

9.43

1.58

0.79

2.28

1.45

R

R<LSW

0.06

1.64

0.43

1.00

5.00

3.77

0

0

2.14

2.89