Foreign language reading anxiety.

Autor/inn/en	Saito, Yoshiko; Garza, Thomas J.; Horwitz, Elaine K.
Titel	Foreign language reading anxiety.
Quelle	In: The modern language journal, 83 (1999) 2, S. 202-218Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anhang
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0026-7902
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Pilotstudie; Sprachlehrforschung; Angst; Selbsteinschätzung; Didaktische Grundlageninformation; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerbsforschung; Russischunterricht; Japanisch; Japanischunterricht; Spanischunterricht; Lesen; Leseverstehen; Hochschule
Abstract	Whereas most discussions of foreign language (FL) anxiety have centered on the difficulties caused by anxiety with respect to oral performance, the 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. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2001_(CD)