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CHAPTER FIVE
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The empirical findings of the second aim of this study are presented below. As the
present study is both exploratory and descriptive in nature, the results and discussion are
presented separately for each cultural group (White, Coloured, Black and Indian) and follow
the following pattern:
Mean (average) number of small pictures correctly identified;
Mean (average) number of identified stimuli in large revised picture;
Mean (average) number of identified descriptive words in large revised picture;
Mean (average) number of identified descriptive sentences in the large revised picture; and
Mean (average) number of identified pronouns in the large revised picture;
Furthermore, each cultural group is individually described in terms of the children's
performance on each of the above categories for each:
Two-month age interval (60 to 83 months);
Socio-economic group;
Language group; and
Gender group.
DESCRIPTION OF THE WHITE CHILDREN'S PERFORMANCE
Table 8 indicates the means (X) and standard deviations (SD's) of the correctly
identified small revised pictures, the stimuli identified, descriptive words, descriptive
sentences and pronouns elicited from the large revised South African (SA) and United
Kingdom (UK) pictures by the White pre-schoolers of sample 1 and 2.
Seventy-one months was the mean age of the White pre-schoolers in both sample 1
and 2. For both samples the mean number of correctly identified small pictures was 18.
This was in accordance to Griffith's (1960) proposed scoring criteria for children of this age.
Furthermore, with reference to Griffith's (1960) proposed criteria, the White pre-schoolers of
both samples identified fewer descriptive words and pronouns than was suggested.
However, they identified the suggested number of descriptive sentences and a far greater
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