Reading at The University: Difficulty vs Fear

The act of reading is not a mere interaction between the reader and text. It also involves engagement what he or she believes in. Readers find difficult because they have difficulties with vocabulary target language used in Next, some already barriers understanding hindered by related issues such as sentence structure culture-related phrases. fear top-down anxiety, bottom-up anxiety even classroom instructions. This study done to investigate readers' perception comprehension readers’ reading. Thirty respondents from social sciences faculty public university were randomly chosen for this study. instrument questionnaire. survey has 3 sections. Section A about demographic profile; section B perceived C anxiety. revealed that more worrying when it comes did blame their lack knowledge difficulty. They very confident answering questions. Learners anxious given texts had no background of. supersedes other Overall findings bear interesting pedagogical implications teaching learning