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impacted on the spread of obtained mean scores.
Table 30 indicates the English-, Afrikaans- and Xhosa- speaking Indian pre-
schoolers' responses to the revised small and large SA and UK pictures.
Table 30
The responses given to the small and large revised SA and UK pictures for the two language
groups for the Indian pre-schoolers of sample 1 and 2
AGE SMALL
PICT-
URES
Language
Mean no.
of Stimuli
identified
Mean
no. of
Stimuli
SAMPLE 1 SAMPLE 2
LARGE SA PICTURE
Mean
no. of
Descriptive
words
Mean
no. of
Descriptivesentences
Mean
no. of
Pronouns
SMALL
PICT-
URES
Mean no.
of Stimuli
identified
Mean
no. of
Stimuli
LARGE UK PICTURE
Mean
no. of
Descriptive
words
Mean
no. of
Descriptivesentences
E 18 21 3 2 1 18 20 2 2 1
A 18 16 1 5 2 17 19 1 1 1
X 16 24 1 0 0 16 20 2 0 1
E = English; A = Afrikaans; X = Xhosa
As evident in Table 30 for both samples the spread of the highest mean scores
Mean
no. of
Pronouns
amongst the three language groups were diverse. This was true for both the small and large
revised SA and UK pictures. The small number of Afrikaans- and Xhosa- speaking Indian
pre-schoolers in the present study needs to be kept in mind when interpreting the results of
the study.
Table 31 indicates the responses of both gender groups of the Indian pre-school
children from sample 1 and 2, to the revised small and large SA and UK pictures.
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