Table 3 Comparison between the two age groups regarding the scores of first story of English narration test

Story frame features

9.7

1.26

11.16*

.93

Events

19.03

1.2

19.72*

.64ĵ

Language structure

5.07

1.05

5.43*

.9

Temporality and connectives

3.93

0.36

3.97

.26

Reference clarity

2.98

0.15

2.95

.22

Sentence structure

2.43

0.17

2.54*

.11

Phrasal structure

10.89

1.46

11.59*

.82

Noun forms

7.39

1.14

7.83*

.57

Verb forms

6.50

1.24

7*

1.31

Frequency of words per minute

37.88

4.26

41.69*

3.55

Mean length of utterance level

2.32

0.57

2.67

.47

Type token ratio level

2.55

0.65

2.74

.48

Code switch/code mixing

0.03

0.21

0.09

.34

Absence of interjection

2

0

2

0

Absence of neologistic words

2

0

2

0

Total narrative productivity

46.72

5.21

51.14*

4.13

Total

114.21

7.13

122.78*

5.03