Unidimensionality of the Chinese version of the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale.

Full Abstract

Previous research showed the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale is reliable and valid for assessing reading anxiety in groups of American college students beginning study of French, Japanese, or Russian. Because Saito, Horwitz, and Garza (1999) reported that reading anxiety tends to vary with the target language, the present investigation examined the factorial validity of the Chinese version of the scale in college students of English as a foreign language in Taiwan, Confirmatory factor analysis with maximum likelihood method supports the unidimensionality of the scale, which is reliable and valid for eliciting reading anxiety of Chinese college foreign language learners and for predicting their global language performance. This study suggests exploring how language proficiency, culture, and topic familiarity may be related to such anxiety.

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Author information

Author/s: Hsiao, Tsung-Yuan (TY);

Affiliation: Center for English Education, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Republic of China. tyhsiao(-atsign-)mail.ntou.edu.tw

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Perceptual and motor skills (Percept Mot Skills), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Dec; vol 95 (issue 3 Pt 1) : pp 927-33

Dates: Created 2003/01/01; Completed 2003/04/07; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12509198, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Adult
Anxiety - diagnosis; psychology
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Ethnic Groups - psychology
Female
Humans
Language

Language
Male
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Psychometrics
Reading
Reproducibility of Results
Taiwan

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