Table 5.

Performance pre- and post- training at the narrative assessment

Linguistic level	T0—Pre training		T1—Post training		z	p*	r
	Score range Min–Max	Raw score M (SD)	Score range Min–Max	Raw score M (SD)
Micro
MLU	4.65–10.49	6.20 (1.39)	5.33–12.93	8.12 (2.17)	2.79	.005	.70
Omissions of morphosyntactic information	14.82–56.63	35.43 (13.50)	10.10–39.33	24.39 (7.84)	− 2.53	.011	.63
Complete sentences	25.54–68.21	48.24 (12.51)	41.79–74.33	58.85 (8.24)	2.84	.004	.71
Macro
Cohesive errors	5.00–60.89	25.22 (13.55)	.00–37.48	16.47 (10.43)	− 2.79	.005	.70
Coherence errors	.00–41.96	13.57 (10.21)	.00–25.22	10.83 (8.24)	− .91	.363	.23
LIUs	67.55–91.48	79.37 (7.80)	69.14–87.64	77.96 (5.42)	− .67	.50	.17

Statistically significant results are indicated in bold

^*p-value threshold was adjusted for multiple comparisons with Bonferroni correction (p < .008)

z standardized test statistics; r effect size; MLU Mean length of utterance; LIUs Lexical Information Units