چکیده:
This study presented here is an attempt to examine the role of GAD in reading
comprehension performance in English as a foreign language. 141 male high
school students in Zanjan were selected as the subjects of the study. GAD-7 self
report scale and a reading comprehension test were administered. The results of
the statistical analyses of data indicated that there was a significant negative
relationship between GAD and reading comprehension performance. The
obtained results also revealed that GAD influences the students’ performance to
some extent in reading comprehension
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Role of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Reading Comprehension Performance Mohammad Mohammadi TEFL, Associate Professor, Urmia University Mehdi Dadashi TEFL, PhD Candidate, Urmia University Ebrahim Zanghani TEFL, MA, Urmia University Abstract This study presented here is an attempt to examine the role of GAD in reading comprehension performance in English as a foreign language.
The results of the statistical analyses of data indicated that there was a significant negative relationship between GAD and reading comprehension performance.
GAD as one of the most common psychiatric disorders (Wells & Carter, 2006) like any other anxiety disorder can impede and consume attention and cognitive processes that could be otherwise allocated to developing foreign language learning.
The intent of the present study is to investigate the relationship between Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and the students’ performance in reading comprehension in English as a foreign language.
Zin and Rafik-Galea (2010) surveyed anxiety and academic reading performance among Malay ESL learners and concluded that anxiety can hinder comprehension by interfering with the readers’ cognitive systems which are responsible for processing the information in the reading texts.
Discussion This study shed light on the relationship between the generalized anxiety disorder and the students’ reading comprehension performance.
Finally, it is worth noting that GAD-7 self report scale which was utilized by researchers in this study yielded roughly the same results analogous to previously conducted studies using the specific foreign language anxiety questionnaires.
Anxiety and reading comprehension performance in English as a foreign language."