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The effect of test conditions on foreign language reading anxiety

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K12472
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
Research InstitutionChubu University

Principal Investigator

MIKAMI Hitoshi  中部大学, 人文学部, 講師 (90770008)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Keywords外国語読解不安 / テスト不安 / テスト条件 / 外国語読解テスト
Outline of Final Research Achievements

(a) The first study discusses the interchangeability of three self-report measures for reading anxiety. Despite their differences in target constructs, the three scales have been used for similar lines of research. The author reaches the conclusion that the scales are non-interchangeable with one another.
(b) While foreign language (FL) reading anxiety (FLRA) has been treated as a unique construct, the possibility that FLRA is only a subset of the test anxiety (TA) construct has long been ignored. The second study was done to obtain a clear picture on this topic. The test results confirmed the independence of FLRA from TA.
(c) The most intriguing result of the third study was that the majority of the participants had experienced anxiety in situations where they lacked an effective strategy to solve given reading tasks.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

概要にある課題①は,不安とテスト成績の関係性が,使用する尺度次第で変化する可能性を示している。課題②は,読解不安とテスト不安が異なる構成概念である場合,外国語読解研究における不安の捉え方を再考する必要があることを示している。また,読解テストは外国語の熟達度判定に広く用いられるにも関わらず,テストのどのような性質が不安と読解成績の間に体系的な負の関係をもたらすのかは,これまで中心的な問題として扱われてこなかった。以上の理由から,本研究は,不安とFL読解テスト成績の関係を検証する上で重要性の高い課題①~③の解決を目指すこととした。

Report

(3 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2019 2018

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results)

  • [Journal Article] Reading anxiety scales: Do they measure the same construct?2019

    • Author(s)
      Mikami Hitoshi
    • Journal Title

      Reading in a Foreign Language

      Volume: 31 Pages: 249-268

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Positive psychology broadens readers' attentional scope during L2 reading: Evidence from eye movements2019

    • Author(s)
      Leung, C.Y., Mikami, H., & Yoshikawa, L.
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Psychology

      Volume: 10 Pages: 1-12

    • DOI

      10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02245

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Tests make foreign language readers anxious: What teachers can do in everyday practice2019

    • Author(s)
      Mikami Hitoshi
    • Organizer
      CHALLENGES 9
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Is foreign language reading anxiety a subset of test anxiety?2019

    • Author(s)
      Mikami Hitoshi
    • Organizer
      The 25th annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Immediate and sustained effects of semester abroad experience on target language reading proficiency: A longitudinal study2019

    • Author(s)
      三上仁志、塩澤正
    • Organizer
      The 2019 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Functional differences in reading anxiety measures: Focusing on the anxiety-performance relationship2018

    • Author(s)
      三上仁志
    • Organizer
      第1回JAAL in JACET学術交流集会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Anxiety-performance interface in testing for foreign language reading: Shedding light on text misinterpretation2018

    • Author(s)
      三上仁志
    • Organizer
      The 3rd International Conference on Language Education and Testing/Language Education and Emotions
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 外国語読解不安研究の成果と展望2018

    • Author(s)
      三上仁志
    • Organizer
      大学英語教育学会中部支部2018年度秋季定例研究会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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