Page 92 - Second language development of newly arrived migrant kindergarteners - Frederike Groothoff

92 Chapter 5 5.3 Method 5.3.1 Participants In this part of the study concerning the narrative ability of newly arrived migrant kindergarteners the same 42 pupils (21 girls) took part as in Chapter 4, which reported their receptive vocabulary development. At the beginning of the study, at Session 0, they were enrolled at 10 different schools. Due to their transfer from DL2-schools to mainstream schools the participants were enrolled in 35 different mainstream schools at the time of Session 3. All parents signed a consent form for the participation of their child and filled in a questionnaire with a few background questions. Table 5.1 provides the descriptive characteristics of the participants in this sub- study on narrative ability per session. The statistics for Session 0 and Session 1 in table 5.1 are slightly different from Table 4.1 in Chapter 4 with the descriptive statistics of the participants during the receptive vocabulary assessments of the same pupils, because the first two assessments of the narrative ability were not on the same day as the assessments of the receptive vocabulary. The descriptive statistics of Sessions 2 and 3 from the narrative assessment and the receptive vocabulary assessment are directly comparable because these two assessments took place on the same day.