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Willingness to Communicate and Annual Income

open access: yesPerceptual and Motor Skills, 1998
This study examines the effect of willingness to communicate on annual income. 103 respondents with varied occupations and an average age of 55.3 yr. reported their willingness to communicate in a variety of contexts. A one-way analysis of variance yielded a large, significant effect for willingness to communicate, which accounted for 27% of the ...
Kathleen Ellis   +2 more
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Willingness to Communicate

open access: yes, 2007
The Willingness to Communicate (WTC) Scale (McCroskey & Richmond, 1985) measures a respondent’s tendency to approach or avoid initiating communication. The scale is based from Burgoon’s (1976) Unwillingness to Communicate Scale, except the construct is worded in positive terms and assumes the respondent is self aware of his/her own approach ...
S. Berry, R. Woods
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Evolutionary insights on the willingness to communicate

International Journal of Game Theory, 2003
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Sjaak Hurkens, Karl H. Schlag
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Predictors of willingness to communicate in Basque

Rivista di psicolinguistica applicata, 2023
Despite the effort made by the Basque Government to promote the use of the Basque language, the data indicate that, although there has been an increase in the knowledge, the Basque language use has decreased during the last decade. Among the related factors, emotions and motivation related to the use of the language may be factors that explain this ...
Minguez Alcaide, Xavier, Perez, Joana
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Willingness to Communicate

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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Willingness to Communicate Organ Donation Intention

Public Health Nursing, 2007
ABSTRACT Objective: The study tested an intervention exposing people who planned to donate organs to written information about communicating with family their intention to donate organs.Design: A pretest posttest double‐blind experiment compared participants given written information about communicating with family and basic organ donation ...
Deborah Dillon, McDonald   +9 more
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Measuring Willingness to Communicate

2020
Willingness to communicate (WTC) reflects the probability that a person will choose to communicate if an opportunity arises. Originally developed with reference to native language communication, the development of research in second and additional languages has expanded the theory and measurement of the WTC construct.
Peter D. MacIntyre   +1 more
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Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language

Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2003
Past research has focused primarily on second language (L2) acquisition as a tool for promoting intercultural communication. The social context model, for example, stresses the importance of contact, L2 confidence, and identity in acquiring a L2. The willingness to communicate (WTC) model, however, emerged from a concern with the functions of L2 use ...
Richard Clément   +2 more
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Willingness to Communicate (WTC)

2019
Willingness to Communicate (WTC) is one of the highly studied ID variables in language learning and teaching in the past three decades. In this chapter, the origin of WTC is discussed and its introduction to L2 research literature is briefly reviewed. Moreover, empirical studies conducted over the globe are summarized.
Nourollah Zarrinabadi   +2 more
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Willingness to communicate and action control

System, 2010
Abstract 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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