Investigating the relationship between the anxiety and reading comprehension and its impact on preparatory schools students' performance in misan

Abstract EN

This study aims at investigating the relationship between the anxiety and reading comprehension and its impact on preparatory school students' performance in Misan.

The study is restricted to fifth grade male and female students in the preparatory school in Misan Governorate, during the second term of the academic year2012–2013.

In this study, 96 female students and 95 male students are included.

Sixty students are chosen randomly to represent the main study sample.

In order to collect the necessary data.

A questionnaire, and a reading comprehension test are applied as instruments.

The obtained results indicate the negative relationship between anxiety and reading comprehension.

That is whenever decreasing students' anxiety their reading comprehension is increased and the vice versa is correct.