대학생들이 경험하는 영어 읽기불안에 관한 인식 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate college students’ perception on English reading anxiety and examined what factors of the English reading anxiety Korean college students perceived. The quantitative as well as qualitative methodologies were applied for this study. For the survey of the study, a total of 115 college students majoring in English participated in the study, and 9 out of those college students who took courses related to English reading participated in the interview which was the main method of the qualitative study. As a result, this study found that the college students perceived the high level of English reading anxiety and they perceived that their English reading anxiety had negative effects on the process of English reading as well as reading proficiency. According to the study, it was indicated that the college students perceived the reading anxiety factors such as lack of self-confidence, the frequent use of bottom-up reading strategy, insufficient of background knowledge, scarcity of vocabulary items, and grammar knowledge. Based on the results of the study, several implications and limitations were discussed.