Ever since Long (1983) concluded that instruction makes a different in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), many researchers have attempted to examine the effectiveness of various kinds of instruction in L2 classrooms (e.g. Farley, 2005; Wong, 2004). In fact, last two decades have experienced an evolution in classroom research and more studies (Benati,2001; Doughty & Williams, 1998) have attempted to investigate the appropriate method of implementing instructional treatments in the classroom. Within this paradigm of research, one important problem is whether providing instruction through one...

This study deployed the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS) to investigate the construct of foreign language reading anxiety that was then correlated with three different aspects pertaining to the foreign language classroom: reading comprehension ability, age and gender among distance EFL learners. The research was carried out on a group of 112 students who were all junior or senior students studying English at Mashhad Payame Noor University (Iran's distance education university). The present study attempted to make the concept of foreign language reading anxiety more relevant to...