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Table 13 indicates the responses of the White male and female pre-school children
to the revised small and large SA and UK pictures. Both groups of sample 1 and 2, obtained
the same mean scores for the number of correctly identified small picture stimuli (X=18).
Table 13
The responses given to the small and large revised SA pictures for both gender groups for
the White pre-schoolers of sample 1 and 2
AGE SMALL
PICT-
URES
Gender
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
F 18 19 3 3 1 18 19 2 3 1
M 18 19 3 3 1 18 18 3 3 1
F = Females; M = Males
Regarding the large revised SA and UK pictures, both gender groups elicited the
same mean number of descriptive sentences (X=3) and pronouns (X=1). Both gender
Mean
no. of
Pronouns
groups of sample 1 also identified the same mean number of stimuli (X=19) and descriptive
words (X=3) from the large revised SA picture. These findings are in accordance with
previous research completed on the Griffiths (Heimes, 1983; Allan, 1988, 1992). Females'
of sample 2 obtained a higher mean number than males with regards to the elicited stimuli
from the large UK picture, while males obtained a higher mean number of elicited descriptive
words. Sampson's (1962) longitudinal study of linguistic development found little difference
between the gender groups with regards to the children's verbal vocabulary, composition
skill and grammatical utilization at 5 years of age.
DESCRIPTION OF THE BLACK CHILDREN'S PERFORMANCE
Table 14 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 SA and UK pictures by the Black
pre-schoolers of sample 1 and 2.