RESEARCH IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH • VOLUME 36 • FEBRUARY 2002 This study addresses issues of English language anxiety in two settings: English as a second language and mainstream classrooms. Participants were 178 middle-school Mexican immigrant students attending school in the U.S. Participants were given the English Language Anxiety Scale, which was analyzed with three statistical tests: pai...

Reading anxiety is a situational phobia with physical and cognitive reactions. This can be facilitative or debilitative result in negative impact on reading comprehension, competence, strategies. Most previous studies were carried out traditional classrooms., but the sudden transition to online distance learning (ODL) due COVID-19, extent of ODL among Malaysian university learners its contribut...

Recently, there has been increasing evidence for information-processing deficits in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). While impairments in selective attention have been identified to be central to the symptomatology of OCD, the role that situational anxiety plays in attentional processes has not been fully explored. Previous research findings were limited to tasks containing...

Reading academic literature and writing review are common assignments in university education.Although there many sources describing the process of reading review, teachers students still face difficulties accomplishing these tasks.As an informal course, this course is final report eight years authors' teaching combination with course/graduation practical activities.At present, our school has t...

This essay considers a researcher’s anxiety at submitting trauma memoir to critical scrutiny. By studying the uneven distribution of grievability in white expatriate’s Zimbabwe, it explores how this can open up for reading strategy that is sensitive political power selective empathy.

This study examined the relationship between 'theory of mind' and attachment-related anxiety and avoidance in adolescence. The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" test and the "Experiences in Close Relationships - Relationship Structures" questionnaires were administered to 402 14-19 year-old adolescents. Contrary to expectations, anxiety but not avoidance with mother was associated with less accura...

Introduction: Adolescence is a period of stressful transition for youths who have reading difficulties and they may be at risk for emotional and behavioral problems. Aim of the Study: Is to evaluate the reading difficulties among a group of adolescents and highlight the emotional and the behavioral symptoms associated with this difficulty. Subjects and Methods: Thirty-five poor reader adolescen...