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Willingness to communicate and action control
System, 2010Abstract Being willing to communicate is part of becoming fluent in a second language, which often is the ultimate goal of L2 learners. Julius Kuhl's theory of action control is introduced as an expansion of the conceptual framework for the study of Willingness to Communicate.
Peter D. MacIntyre, Jesslyn Doucette
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2018
This chapter examines factors impacting L2 WTC among Chinese ELLs studying in an EAP program in Australia. Adopting both quantitative and qualitative methods, three questionnaires were used to measure L2 WTC, English learning motivation, and self-rated English proficiency; and semi-structured interviews were used to triangulate and complement ...
Han, F, Wang, Z
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This chapter examines factors impacting L2 WTC among Chinese ELLs studying in an EAP program in Australia. Adopting both quantitative and qualitative methods, three questionnaires were used to measure L2 WTC, English learning motivation, and self-rated English proficiency; and semi-structured interviews were used to triangulate and complement ...
Han, F, Wang, Z
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Willingness to communicate: Differing cultural perspectives
Southern Communication Journal, 1990The general tendency to approach or avoid communication has been recognized as an important individual difference among people in a single culture for several decades. Recent research in Australia, Micronesia, Puerto Rico, Sweden, and the United States suggests large differences exist in such tendencies between people in different cultures as well as ...
James C. McCroskey, Virginia P. Richmond
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Willingness to communicate: Antecedents & consequences
Communication Quarterly, 1999Willingness to communicate (WTC) is examined at the trait and state levels, which are viewed as complementary. Measures of trait WTC, extraversion, emotional stability, self‐esteem, communication apprehension, and competence were administered to 226 male and female university students.
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Talk to Me! Games and Students’ Willingness to Communicate
2012In recent years there has been a lot of interest in the potential role of computer games in language education. Playing games is said to be motivating to students and to benefit the development of social skills, such as collaboration, and metacognitive skill, such as planning and organization. An important potential benefit is also that games encourage
Sorada Wattana, Hayo Reinders
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Encouraging ESL Students’ Willingness to Communicate [PDF]
, 2023 There are many individual difference factors that are involved in successful second language (L2) acquisition, including Willingness to Communicate (WTC). WTC can be described as the probability that a learner will initiate communication in situations where they are free to do so (MacIntyre, 2007).
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Students' Willingness to Communicate in EFL Context
Journal Ishraqat Tanmawya, 2022Willingness to communicate is a recently emerged concept in applied linguistics which is believed to interrelate with many other important concepts like motivation, anxiety, self-perceived communicative competence, self-confidence, international posture, and language proficiency.
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L2 Motivation and Willingness to Communicate
2019This chapter examines the theoretical development of willingness to communicate (WTC) as a psychological construct, focusing on the L2 WTC model (MacIntyre, Clement, Dornyei, & Noels, Modern Language Journal, 82, 545–562, 1998), to address how both trait-like and situated variables influence momentary WTC.
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