Foreign Language Reading Anxiety and Reading Strategies among Vietnamese Learners of English

The quantitative study was carried out at That Nguyen University of Education to measure the levels of reading anxiety among EFL students who have just finished one year of intensive English. These students are about to take the IELTS exam with expected result was 5.5 overall band (B2-CEFR). The finding shows that the level of anxiety measured was at medium level (M= 3.31, SD= 0.5937). The second research question focuses on the relationship between reading anxiety and the uses of reading strategies. The results show that there were no significant discrepancy between reading anxiety and the uses of reading strategies. The results also indicate that reading anxiety does not affect the uses of different groups of reading strategies.