Table 1.
Variable | French |
German |
p value (uncorrected) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
mean | SD | mean | SD | ||
Age of acquisition (years) | 1.61 | 2.21 | 0.93 | 1.87 | 0.43 |
Lived in region speaking (years) | 16.65 | 6.33 | 11.92 | 9.34 | 0.19 |
Family (%) | |||||
First language mother | 14 | 35 | 79 | 41 | 0.01* |
Language spoken with mother | 50 | 50 | 57 | 49 | 0.78 |
First language father | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 1.00 |
Language spoken with father | 58 | 49 | 46 | 50 | 0.55 |
Childhood (Age < 7 years) (%) | |||||
Language taught in school | 48 | 43 | 52 | 43 | 0.88 |
Language spoken with peers at school | 52 | 44 | 41 | 43 | 0.65 |
Language spoken with family | 45 | 32 | 45 | 32 | 1.00 |
Present (%) | |||||
Spoken at work | 52 | 26 | 48 | 26 | 0.81 |
Watching TV/listening radio | 30 | 22 | 66 | 24 | 0.01* |
Speaking with friends | 59 | 22 | 38 | 21 | 0.09 |
Reading books | 43 | 24 | 54 | 26 | 0.45 |
Mental arithmetic | 64 | 35 | 27 | 31 | 0.04* |
Learned (%) | |||||
Learned in school only | 7 | 26 | 0 | 0 | - |
Learned “on road” only | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Learned at workplace only | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Self-evaluation (%) | |||||
Speaking | 94 | 6 | 92 | 11 | 0.57 |
Comprehension | 97 | 4 | 96 | 5 | 0.82 |
Reading | 90 | 11 | 90 | 12 | 0.91 |
Writing | 77 | 22 | 80 | 17 | 0.64 |
Computer-based evaluation (min = 0; max = 1000) | |||||
DIALANG score | 852 | 124 | 864 | 59 | 0.77 |
SD, standard deviation; *p < 0.05.