| Summary: | 碩士 === 立德大學 === 應用英語研究所 === 97 === The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of genre on reading anxiety in
high and low English proficiency university EFL learners. A total of 357 university
freshmen participated in this study including 118 students of the College of Humanities
and Education, 119 students of the College of Business and 120 students of the College of
Sciences. The Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (Saito et al., 1999) and an adapted
version of the FLRAS— the Genre Reading Anxiety Scales (Narrative and Expository)—
as the main instruments used in this study. The collected quantitative data was analyzed by
SPSS 15.0, to produce the descriptive statistics, and the results of independent samples
t-tests and one-way ANOVA.
The findings of this study were as follows: (1) there is a significant difference
between high and low proficiency learners when reading narrative and expository texts; (2)
there is a significant difference in reading anxiety between students of the College of
Humanities and Education and those from the College of Business; (3) learners
experienced higher levels of reading anxiety when reading expository texts than narrative
texts and (4) the participants from the College of Business had highest levels of reading
anxiety, while the participants from the College of Humanities and Education had lowest.
Recommendations for further studies are also discussed at the end of this thesis.
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