DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES, SCHOOL OF

GRADUATE STUDIES

HAWASSA UNIVERSITY
HAWASSA, ETHIOPIA

A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN

STUDENTS’ FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY AND
READING PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF DODOLA
HIGH SCHOOL GRADE 9 INFOCUS
 1. INTRODUCTION

 This part of the paper presents the problem, sources and its justification,
research gas, objectives and beneficiaries of the research in detail.

1.1. Background
Anxiety is an intricate psychological concept that cannot be easily defined.

psychologists it is a general term referring to the feeling of nervousness, fear,

apprehension and worrying.

Different scholars (Dworetzky, 1988: Comer, 2007: Myers, 2007) viewed

anxiety as a disorder and they classified it as: generalized anxiety disorder,
panic disorder, phobic disorder etc.