Effects of Bilingualism on Reading Fluency: An Analysis of Pausing Patterns of Iranian Learners of English as a Third Language

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="5"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Participants</td><td class="align_center"><i>N</i></td><td class="align_center">Mean</td><td class="align_center">Std. deviation</td><td class="align_center">Std. error mean</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="5"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Monolinguals</td><td class="align_center">20</td><td class="align_center">26.5200</td><td class="align_center">0.44611</td><td class="align_center">0.09975</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Bilinguals</td><td class="align_center">20</td><td class="align_center">23.4970</td><td class="align_center">0.34720</td><td class="align_center">0.07764</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="5"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Descriptive Statistics of Participants’ Pause Frequency in English per minute.</div>

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Table 1: Effects of Bilingualism on Reading Fluency: An Analysis of Pausing Patterns of Iranian Learners of English as a Third Language 