Table 2 Comparison between the two age groups regarding the scores of first story of Arabic narration test

Story frame features

8.02

1.64

10.03*

1.21

Events

16.8

1.92

18.66*

1.19

Language structure

4.02

1.03

4.59*

1.17

Temporality and connectives

2.78

0.74

3.34*

0.48

Reference clarity

2.26

0.74

2.71*

0.46

Sentence structure

1.14

0.7

1.67*

0.47

Phrasal structure

8.58

1.7

10.59*

1.16

Noun forms

6.62

1.15

7.38*

0.83

Verb forms

4.99

0.91

5.78*

0.46

Frequency of words per minute

35.3

6.41

39.17*

4.5

Mean length of utterance level

2.25

0.62

2.59*

0.53

Type token ratio level

2.09

0.74

2.69*

0.5

Code switch/ code mixing

4.2

2.03

4.36*

1.57

Absence of interjection

2

0

2

0

Absence of neologistic words

2

0

2

0

Total narrative productivity

47.9

7.38

52.84*

5.21

Total

103.12

11.66

117.59*

6.73