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DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A SCALE FOR MEASURING FOREIGN LANGUAGE READING ANXIETY
Ivana Matić
orcid.org/0000-0001-8340-2280
; Osnovna škola Ivana Kukuljevića Sakcinskog, Ivanec, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This article presents the development of a scale for measuring foreign language reading anxiety and the first results of the pilot study using the new scale. The existing scale for measuring foreign language reading anxiety is the FLRAS (Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale), developed by Saito, Garza and Horwitz (1999), and is used by researchers worldwide for measuring reading anxiety at foreign language learning. The FLRAS contains twenty items and it is easy to apply. The scale proves the presence of anxiety when reading texts in a foreign language and it is reliable in measuring anxiety levels. The application of this scale in investigating reading anxiety and the analysis of FLRAS showed that some items of the scale were constructed generally, these items are not easy to interpret and some of them are ambiguous. This article further describes an attempt at redesigning the existing scale and developing a new one, which could measure anxiety more precisely and explore some new factors of foreign language reading anxiety. Finally, this article describes the first results of using the developed scale in investigating reading anxiety in German as L2.
Ključne riječi
reading anxiety; foreign language anxiety; foreign language reading anxiety; scale; measuring foreign language reading anxiety
Hrčak ID:
174076
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2016.
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