Table 1 Comparison between the scores of Arabic and English narration tests in the first story for the whole age group

Story frame features

8.8

1.78

10.26*

1.35

Events

17.52

1.9

19.3

1.07

Language structure

4.24

1.12

5.21*

1.01

Temporality and connectives

3

0.7

3.95*

0.38

Reference clarity

2.43

0.68

2.97*

0.18

Sentence structure

1.35

0.68

2*

0

Phrasal structure

9.35

1.8

11.16*

1.3

Noun forms

6.91

1.1

7.56*

0.98

Verb forms

5.29

0.86

6.69*

1.29

Frequency of words per minute

36.8

6.03

39.35*

4.40

Mean length of utterance level

2.38

0.61

2.45*

0.56

Type token ratio level

2.32

0.72

2.63*

0.60

Code switch/ code mixing

4.2*

2.03

0.03

0.21

Absence of interjection

2

0

2

0

Absence of neologistic words

2

0

2

0

Total narrative productivity

49.81*

7.03

48.43

5.27

Total

108.71

12.26

117.52*

7.63