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Language Testing in Asia

Table 3 Differences in reading comprehension ability among different age groups

From: The development of reading comprehension ability of Chinese Heritage Language (CHL) learners in Indonesia

Dimension

Early adolescence (Mage = 13.56, n = 62)

Late adolescence (Mage = 15.78, n = 115)

Adult (Mage = 22.83, n = 98)

F

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

Reading comprehension ability

8.97

6.17

6.89

5.31

12.33

6.23

23.03***

Orthographic knowledge

3.08

2.13

2.21

1.70

3.59

2.06

13.81***

Vocabulary knowledge

2.24

2.16

1.64

1.97

3.89

2.30

30.28***

Syntactic awareness

1.95

1.70

1.64

1.76

2.66

1.90

8.69***

Discourse comprehension

1.69

1.52

1.39

1.42

2.18

1.62

7.29**

  1. **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001
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