Educational Research and Reviews

  • Abbreviation: Educ. Res. Rev.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1990-3839
  • DOI: 10.5897/ERR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2009

Full Length Research Paper

Foreign language reading anxiety: Does it really exist?

Gonca Subasi
  • Gonca Subasi
  • Teacher Education, ELT Department, Faculty of Education, Anadolu University, Turkey; Anadolu Universitesi Egitim Fakultesi B-22 Yunus Emre Kampusu Eskisehir 26470, Turkiye.
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  •  Received: 04 November 2014
  •  Accepted: 12 December 2014
  •  Published: 23 December 2014

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