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Foreign Language Reading Anxiety
Abstract
Whereas most discussions of foreign language (FL) anxiety have centered on the difficulties caused by anxiety with respect to oral performance, this article discusses the possibility of anxiety in response to foreign or second language reading. It introduces the construct of FL reading anxiety, offers a scale for its measurement, and reports on a preliminary study of reading anxiety in 30 intact first‐semester classes of Spanish, Russian, and Japanese. The study found that contrary to previous teacher intuitions, reading in a FL can be anxiety provoking to some students. Whereas general FL anxiety has been found to be independent of target language, levels of reading anxiety were found to vary by target language and seem to be related to the specific writing systems. In addition, students’ reading anxiety levels increased with their perceptions of the difficulty of reading in their FL, and their grades decreased in conjunction with their levels of reading anxiety and general FL anxiety.
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Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety
HORWITZ, E. K., HORWITZ, M. B., & COPE, J. (1986) · The Modern Language Journal · doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.1986.tb05256.x · Cited by 5,697 · cited 2×
“The fact that students feel they should understand everything and experience anxiety whenever they encounter unfamiliar words and grammar is consistent with previous constructs of FL anxiety (Horwitz, 1988; Horwitz et al., 1986) and expands the conception of reading anxiety discussed earlier in this article.”
MethodResultSelf-citationAIDA, Y. (1994) · The Modern Language Journal · doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.1994.tb02026.x · Cited by 1,109 · cited 6×
“Students’ final course grades were obtained at the end of the semester as a global measure of performance (Aida, 1994; Chastain, 1975; Comeau, 1992; Horwitz, 1986; Saito & Samimy, 1996; Samimy & Tabuse, 1992).”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialCreating a low-anxiety classroom environment: What does language anxiety research suggest?
YOUNG, D. J. (1991) · The Modern Language Journal · doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.1991.tb05378.x · Cited by 1,041 · cited 1×
“50/0 ?1999 The Modern Language Journal performance in the FL classroom (Aida, 1994; Horwitz et al., 1986; Koch & Terrell, 1991; Phillips, 1992; Price, 1991; Young, 1991) and the primary instrument used to study FL anxiety, the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), includes 20 of 33 items that focus on list…”
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- Authors
- Saito, Y., Garza, T. J., & Horwitz, E. K.
- Venue
- The Modern Language Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1999-06
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 202-218
- ISSN
- 0026-7902 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-4781
- OpenAlex
- W2022422276
- Cited by
- 765
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 47.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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