Anxiety and Reading Comprehension in Spanish as a Foreign Language

By Vanisa D. Sellers. 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Effects of Language Anxiety on Three Proficiency‐Level Courses of Spanish as a Foreign Language (2009, background): “…whose z-scores (i.e., the number of standard deviations above or below the mean for each individual score) were one or more standard deviations above the mean on the scale as high anxiety, and those whose z-scores were one or more standard deviations below the mean as low anxiety (Sellers, 1998).”
Language anxiety and achievement (2001, background): “In a second reading study, Sellers (2000) found that reading anxiety negatively impacted learners recall of Spanish texts, replicating a finding by Oh (1990) with Korean EFL learners.”
A measure of second language writing anxiety: Scale development and preliminary validation (2004, background): “Meanwhile, researchers have increasingly focused their attention on identifying and examining anxiety associated with specific language skills such as reading (Saito, Horwitz, & Garza, 1999; Sellers, 2000), listening (Vogely, 1998; Kim, 2000), and writing (Cheng et al., 1999; Leki, 1999).”
What are the Main Sources of Turkish EFL Students' Anxiety in Oral Practice?. (2010, background): “There has been a huge amount research conducted in the area of anxiety oral production (Sellers, 2000), but only a few studies have focused on the sources of it (Kitano, 2001).”
An Exploration of Foreign Language Anxiety and English Learning Motivation (2011, neutral): “Since then, studies on foreign language anxiety have been flourishing, using the FLCAS, or other scales, or other datacollecting instruments such as diaries, journals, interviews, and observations [6, 8, 11–18].”
The Relationship between Language Learners' Anxiety and Learning Strategy in the CLT Classrooms. (2010, background): “Sellers (2000) presents the relationship between reading and anxiety in Spanish as a foreign language.”
Foreign language reading anxiety: Chinese as a foreign language in the United States (2013, background): “A number of research studies corroborated their findings, yet left unanswered exactly how writing systems are related to FL reading anxiety (Huang, 2001; Sellers, 2000; Shi & Liu, 2006; Zhang, 2002).”
Learners' Self - Efficacy In Reading And Its Relation To Foreign Language Reading Anxiety And Reading Achievement (2010, background): “Recent studies into the nature of the relationship between anxiety and reading performance show that higher levels of anxiety influence the reading process in several ways (Sellers, 2000).”
Listening Comprehension and Anxiety in the Arabic Language Classroom (2005, background): “Validity and reliability data for this scale have appeared in the reports of several other studies (e.g., Horwitz et al., 1986; Saito et al., 1999; Saito & Samimy, 1996; Sellers, 2000).”
Foreign language learning anxiety in Japanese EFL university classes: physical, emotional, expressive, and verbal reactions (2009, positive): “…as the nervousness and tension associated with grammar, listening, public speaking, reading, and writing (e.g., Arnold, 2000; Cheng, Horwitz, and Schallert, 1999; Matsuda and Gobel, 2001; Oh, 1992; Saito, Horwitz, and Garza, 1999; Sellers, 2000; VanPatten and Glass, 1999; Vogely, 1998; Young 1990).”
The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale and Academic Achievement: An Overview of the Prevailing Literature and a Meta-analysis (2020, background): “Saito et al. (1999) postulated that anxiety intervenes in the decoding and processing of text, with Sellers (2000) finding that students with higher levels of language anxiety recalling significantly fewer details from a reading text.”
Anxiety and Second/Foreign Language Learning Revisited (2008, background): “The Sparks and Ganschow (1993) versus MacIntyre (1995) debate manifested contrasting viewpoints of mechanism and contextualism.”
Investigating Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety within the EFL Learner's Interlanguage System: The Case of Iranian Learners (2012, background): “© 2012 ACADEMY PUBLISHER 469 Sellers (2000) devoted an outstanding study to examining the relationship between language anxiety and reading comprehension in Spanish as a foreign language.”