Table 7 Comparison between the two age groups regarding the scores of first English Narration Test (the doll)
From: A preliminary evaluation of some language aspects in normal bilingual Egyptian kindergarten children
First English story | Age groups | p value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Group A (4 to < 4.5) | Group B (4.5 to 5) | ||||
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
Story structure features | 10.57 | 1.46 | 11.88 | 0.48 | < 0.001* |
Events | 21.30 | 1.82 | 22.30 | 1.26 | 0.008* |
Language structure | 5.51 | 0.86 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.002* |
Reference clarity | 2.94 | 0.25 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.143 |
Sentence structure | 1.91 | 0.41 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.235 |
Phrasal structure | 11.00 | 1.68 | 11.94 | 0.35 | 0.002* |
Noun forms | 7.83 | 0.56 | 7.94 | 0.35 | 0.325 |
Verb forms | 7.45 | 1.00 | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.002* |
Narrative productivity | 245.96 | 6.63 | 253.45 | 4.01 | < 0.001* |
Total | 316.30 | 12.06 | 328.91 | 5.11 | < 0.001* |