Situational Anxiety and its Relation to Reading Proficiency: A Case of Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners

سال انتشار: 1397
محل انتشار: اولین کنفرانس ملی تحقیقات بنیادین در مطالعات زبان و ادبیات
کد COI اختصاصی: CELPA01_237
زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
تعداد مشاهده: 381

نویسندگان

Department of English Language Teaching, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

چکیده

This research was designed to investigate the relationship between situational anxiety and reading proficiency of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. The main research question of the present research sought to answer whether there is any relationship between situational anxiety and reading proficiency. To achieve the objective, 40 students who were studying English at Gofteman English Language Institute in Rasht were selected as Intermediate learners based on their performance on reading component of TOEFL. Learners’ age was within range of 15 to 21. The reading component of Test of English as a Foreign Language for identifying the students’ level of proficiency and translated State AnxietyInventory of State and Trait Anxiety Inventory were used as instruments for data collection in this research. The possible relationship between the two variables; namely, state anxiety and reading scores was examined through running descriptive statistics and Pearson product moment correlation (Pearson r). The results obtained indicated that there was a statistically significant relationship between EFL learners’ state anxiety and their reading proficiency (P ≤ .01). In other words, the findings implied that Iranian EFL students’ high state anxiety associated with their lowperformance in reading and in contrast, low state anxiety led to better performance in reading.

کلیدواژه ها

Anxiety, Foreign language, Foreign language anxiety, Foreign Language Reading Anxiety, Second Language

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