Table 6 Comparison between the two age groups regarding the scores of the first Arabic Narration Test (the doll)
From: A preliminary evaluation of some language aspects in normal bilingual Egyptian kindergarten children
First Arabic story | Age groups | p value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Group A (4 to < 4.5) | Group B (4.5 to < 5) | ||||
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
Story frame features | 9.60 | 1.47 | 10.42 | 1.09 | 0.007* |
Events | 19.19 | 2.33 | 20.70 | 1.70 | 0.002* |
Language structure | 5.72 | 0.68 | 5.88 | 0.48 | 0.265 |
Reference clarity | 2.91 | 0.28 | 2.91 | 0.29 | 0.929 |
Sentence structure | 1.70 | 0.72 | 1.82 | 0.58 | 0.446 |
Phrasal structure | 10.96 | 1.57 | 11.70 | 0.73 | 0.004* |
Noun forms | 7.53 | 0.95 | 7.88 | 0.48 | 0.058 |
Verb forms | 7.62 | 0.90 | 7.82 | 0.58 | 0.262 |
Narrative productivity | 238.85 | 6.23 | 244.88 | 4.94 | < 0.001* |
Total | 306.09 | 11.08 | 316.00 | 8.20 | < 0.001* |