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Table 1 Items of the semantic section of the Bilingual English-Arabic Test by Maged et al. [13]

From: A preliminary evaluation of some language aspects in normal bilingual Egyptian kindergarten children

Subtest

Number of items in each subtest

Total scoring of each subtest

1. Categorization (by identifying an item from a certain category; then labeling the category of certain items)

8 receptive items and 8 expressive items

32

2. Characteristic property (by identifying the correct item according to a description given, then describing the object and its attributes)

5 receptive and 6 expressive items

22

3. Function (by identifying and labeling an object function provided by picture)

5 receptive and 5 expressive

20

4. Linguistic concept (by identifying some linguistic concepts like features, time, color, number, function, and shape)

9 receptive items only

18

5. Similarities and differences (by giving one similarity and one difference between two objects provided by pictures)

5 expressive items only

10

6. Feminine and masculine (by identifying and using subjective, objective pronouns and possession)

3 receptive and 3 expressive items

12

7. Analogy (by labeling the relationship between object pairs provided by pictures)

6 expressive items only

12

  1. Note. The table “items of semantic section of bilingual English-Arabic Test” shows the subtests that were tested in the semantic section of the Bilingual English-Arabic Test (BEAT), the number of items in each subtest, and the total scoring of each subtest