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="tab3"><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">13.3830</td><td class="align_center">0.34360</td><td class="align_center">0.07683</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Bilinguals</td><td class="align_center">20</td><td class="align_center">10.4930</td><td class="align_center">0.39409</td><td class="align_center">0.08812</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 duration in English per minute.</div>

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Table 3: Effects of Bilingualism on Reading Fluency: An Analysis of Pausing Patterns of Iranian Learners of English as a Third Language 