Objectives: The present study examined if time-pressured administration of an expanded Multilingual Naming Test (MINT) would improve or compromise assessment of bilingual language proficiency and language dominance. Methods: Eighty Spanish–English bilinguals viewed a grid with 80 MINT-Sprint pictures and were asked to name as many pictures as possible in 3 min in each language in counterbalanced order. An Oral Proficiency Interview rated by four native Spanish–English bilinguals provided independent assessment of proficiency level. Bilinguals also self-rated their proficiency, completed two subtests of the Woodcock-Muñoz, and a speeded translation recognition test. We compared scores after 2 min, a first-pass through all the pictures, and a second-pass in which bilinguals were prompted to try to name skipped items. Results: The MINT Sprint and a subset score including original MINT items were highly correlated with Oral Proficiency Interview scores for predicting the degree of language dominance – matching or outperforming all other measures. Self-ratings provided weaker measures (especially of degree of balance – i.e., bilingual index scores) and did not explain any unique variance in measuring the degree of language dominance when considered together with second-pass naming scores. The 2-min scoring procedure did not improve and appeared not to hamper assessment of absolute proficiency level but prompting to try to name skipped items improved assessment of language dominance and naming scores, especially in the nondominant language. Conclusions: Time-pressured rapid naming saves time without significantly compromising assessment of proficiency level. However, breadth of vocabulary knowledge may be as important as retrieval speed for maximizing the accuracy in proficiency assessment.

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MINT Sprint：通过扩展的多语言命名测试探索快速管理程序

目的：本研究探讨了时间紧迫的扩展多语言命名测试 (MINT) 是否会改善或损害双语语言能力和语言优势的评估。方法：80 名西班牙语-英语双语者观看包含 80 张 MINT-Sprint 图片的网格，并被要求在 3 分钟内以每种语言按平衡顺序命名尽可能多的图片。由四名母语为西班牙语-英语的双语者进行的口语能力面试提供了对熟练程度的独立评估。双语者还自我评估了自己的熟练程度，完成了 Woodcock-Muñoz 的两项子测试以及快速翻译识别测试。我们在 2 分钟后比较分数，第一次浏览所有图片，第二次浏览时提示双语者尝试说出跳过的项目。结果：MINT Sprint 和包括原始 MINT 项目的子集分数与口语能力面试分数高度相关，用于预测语言优势程度 - 匹配或优于所有其他衡量标准。自我评分提供了较弱的衡量标准（尤其是平衡程度，即双语指数分数），并且在与第二遍命名分数一起考虑时，没有解释衡量语言主导程度的任何独特差异。2 分钟评分程序没有改进，似乎不会妨碍对绝对熟练程度的评估，但提示尝试命名跳过的项目改善了对语言优势和命名分数的评估，尤其是在非优势语言中。结论：时间紧迫的快速命名可以节省时间，而不会显着影响熟练程度的评估。然而，为了最大限度地提高熟练程度评估的准确性，词汇知识的广度可能与检索速度一样重要。