Reading comprehension skills and their relationship to reading anxiety in English among primary school pupils in Kuwait

Abstract EN

The current research aimed to identify the level of reading comprehension skills in English among primary school pupils in Kuwait and its relationship to reading anxiety in English.

the researcher prepared the reading comprehension skills test in English language and the reading anxiety scale in English to achieve the research objectives.

the two research tools were applied to a sample of (93) female pupils in the fifth grade in the primary stage.

the research concluded that : there is an average level of reading comprehension skills in English among primary school pupils so that the "T" value was (15.45), which is a statistically significant value at the significance level (0.01), and there is an above-average level of reading anxiety in English language among the research sample so that the "T" value was (24.48), which is a statistically significant value at the significance level (0.01), and there is a statistically significant negative correlation at the significance level (0.01) between the scores of the research sample on the reading comprehension skills test in English language and their scores on reading anxiety scale in English language so the correlation coefficient value was (-0.427).