Foreign language reading anxiety: Chinese as a foreign language in the United States

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 764-778

  Zhao, Aiping ^a   Guo, Ying ^b   Dynia, Jaclyn ^c  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Background variables; Chinese as a foreign language; Reading; Writing system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882668625     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2013.12032.x     Document Type: Article

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