Table 2.
Reaction times and accuracy for English and Hindi words.
English | Hindi | |||||||
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High | Low | High | Low | |||||
Reaction time (seconds) | Accuracy (%) | Reaction time (seconds) | Accuracy (%) | Reaction time (seconds) | Accuracy (%) | Reaction time (seconds) | Accuracy (%) | |
Monolingual English readers | 0.65±0.02 | 99 | 0.68±0.03 | 99 | ||||
Monolingual Hindi readers | 0.64±0.08 | 100 | 0.66±0.09 | 100 | ||||
Simultaneous bilingual readers | 0.71±0.04 | 98 | 0.73±0.05 | 98 | 0.71±0.05 | 99 | 0.72±0.06 | 99 |
Sequential bilingual readers | 0.75±0.06 | 96 | *0.81±0.07 | 89 | 0.74±0.04 | 100 | 0.76±0.05 | 100 |
Significant differences seen when sequential readers were compared with monolingual English readers, (t9=−3.040, p<0.014) and simultaneous bilingual readers (t9=−2.87, p<0.018).