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

Table 6

Results of independent-samples t-test for pause placement in English.

		Levene’s test		T-test for equality of means
		F	Sig.	t	df	Sig. (2-tailed)	Mean difference
Mid_Clause	Equal variances	4.325	0.044	10.072	38	0.000	2.67800
	Nonequal variances			10.072	35.887	0.000	2.67800
End_Clause	Equal variances	0.023	0.880	1.275	38	0.210	0.40200
	Nonequal variances			1.275	37.953	0.210	0.40200