Lakshmi Prasanna P*

Associate Professor in Speech - Language Pathology, Helen Keller’s Institute of Research and Rehabilitation for the Disabled Children, RK Puram, Telangana, India

*Corresponding Author: Lakshmi Prasanna P, Associate Professor in Speech - Language Pathology, Helen Keller’s Institute of Research and Rehabilitation for the Disabled Children, RK Puram, Telangana, India.

Received: May 16, 2023; Published: May 22, 2023

Abstract

Reading fluency is a task used to assess the reading percentage by measuring the rate of reading. The present study was conducted to examine the impact of multilingualism on reading fluency. Reading rates may differ between languages, hence this needed to be investigated. The study involved 30 healthy volunteers who were fluent in Telugu (L1), Hindi (L2), and English (L3). Each participant received three paragraphs with 130 words each to read aloud. Measurements included word count, duration and percentage. The findings revealed that L1 and L2 are not significantly different from one another, whereas L3 and L1 and L2 are significantly different from one another. According to the author, word length and structure affect duration differently across languages.

Keywords: Reading Fluency, Multilingualism, Reading Rate and Percentage; Telugu and Hindi

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Citation

Citation: Lakshmi Prasanna P. “The Impact of Multilingualism on Reading Fluency". Acta Scientific Neurology 6.6 (2023): 28-34.

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Copyright: © 2023 Lakshmi Prasanna P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.