“…Also, the influence of computer-assisted language learning on reading achievement was determined (Khezrlou, Ellis, & Sadeghi, 2017). In addition, few researchers considered the association between psychological variables and reading comprehension performance including anxiety (Chen et al, 2016;Tsai & Lee, 2018), motivation (Galgao, 2016), self-efficacy beliefs (Shehzad et al, 2019), multiple intelligence (Rostami Abu Saeedi & Jafarigohar, 2019;Zahedi & Moghaddam, 2016), critical thinking (Fahim & Barjesteh, 2018), and reading enjoyment (Tavsancil, Yildirim, & Bilican Demir, 2019). Despite the keen interest of researchers regarding the association of psychological variables with EFL reading comprehension performance, there is paucity of research involving a well-researched psychological variable in other fields, i.e., boredom.…”