In three experiments we investigated the extent to which individuals with high or low levels of anxiety about interviews made emotionally-congruent interpretative inferences while reading descriptions of a relevant ambiguously-threatening event (being interviewed for a job). Evidence was found to support the hypothesis that groups varying in self-reported concern about the described event diffe...

This study investigated how resource-demanding reading tasks and stressful conditions affect 1stlanguage (L1) and intermediate 2nd-language (L2) reading comprehension. Using the attentional control theory framework (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007), we investigated the roles of central executive working memory (WM) resources, reading task difficulty, trait reading anxiety, and social ...

The aim of this research was to explore the effect flipped classroom on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ reading skill and anxiety. For purpose, sample 44 Iranian EFL learners recruited randomly assigned group (N =23) non-flipped =21). Using quasi-experimental design, researchers employed an experimental that received instruction control were instructed based regular method for per...

Reading skills are one of the important that must be possessed by an individual to skilled in language. Because language have implications for individual's ability compete international arena aspects scientific communication, economic transactions, and global negotiations. However, realizing reading individual, anxiety is found as a problem has potential hinder complicate it. This paper aims to...

There is a scarcity of research on the effects strategy-based reading instructions anxiety in Pakistan. This action study fills this gap literature by examining impact ESL students at university level Employing quantitative analysis, explored anxiety. With total 60 participants—30 each cycle—the was carried out two cycles. Over course four months, participants both cycles received instructions....

background : gastrointestinal disorders are common complaints for which endoscopy is one of the most important diagnostic procedures. anxiety is an unpleasant, ambiguous feeling of apprehension and fear of an unknown origin that occurs during anxious and previously stressful situations or during an injury. lack of sufficient information and fear of pain can cause anxiety prior to an endoscopy, ...