In the recent years, why and how anxiety influences the acquisition of certain skills like
speaking, listening, writing and reading have attracted the attention of many researchers.
Among these skills, one area which little research exists is the relationship between reading
in a foreign language (FL) and anxiety. This study aimed at finding the sources of FL reading
anxiety from the students' perspectives. For this purpose, 50 first year students were taken as
the subjects. Quantitative findings indicated that FL reading anxiety was a phenomenon …

Anxiety has an important role in learning a foreign language and there is a growing interest
in how anxiety affects language learning. In the recent years, why and how anxiety
influences the acquisition of certain skills like speaking, listening, writing and reading have
attracted the attention of many researchers. Among these skills, one area which little
research exists is the relationship between reading in a foreign language (FL) and anxiety.