Willingness to Communicate and Second Language Proficiency: A Correlational Study
Education Sciences, 2021 This study attempts to answer one straightforward question: “what is the relationship between students’ proficiency level and their willingness to communicate?”, i.e., their “readiness to enter into discourse at a particular time with a specific person ...
Pornapit Darasawang, Hayo Reinders
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Uncovering the Influence of EFL Students’ Perfectionism and Anxiety on their Willingness to Communicate in Language Classes [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2019 The study aims at investigating the influence of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ perfectionism and anxiety on their Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in EFL classes.
Hossein Navidinia +2 more
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On the Relationship between Schwartz’s Value Orientation and Willingness to Communicate: The Case of Iranian University Students [PDF]
, 2018 Values have always been one of the fundamental concepts in social studies. This is while the reconstruction of our values deeply influences language proficiency and willingness to communicate in a second language. Therefore, the present study attempts to
Mohammad Ali Izadpanah,Fatemeh Rakhshandehroo,Mehrnoosh Eslami,Mahmoud shaker
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Measuring Willingness to Communicate [PDF]
, 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 ...
Ayers-Glassey, Samantha +1 more
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Individual Differences and Willingness to Communicate in Second Language: The Role of Student Age, Gender and Socioeconomic Status [PDF]
, 2022 It has been widely argued that willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) is a dual construct of the learner’s trait and state. This study aimed to explore the relationships between trait-level antecedents (students’ demographic features)
Zheng Lin,Bing Li
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The Effect of Online Planning and Strategic Planning in CALL-Based TBLT on Iranian EFL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate [PDF]
Journal of Language Horizons, 2022 The current study examined the impact of online planning and strategic planning in the context of task-based computer-assisted language learning (CALL) on Willingness to Communicate (WTC).
Hadis Esfandiari Dehmajnoni +1 more
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Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2023 Willingness to communicate (henceforth, WTC) is an individual’s preparedness to voluntarily communicate with a particular individual or individuals in a specific context, using the target language. The present mixed-method study investigates Kurdish EFL
Thikra Abdulqader +1 more
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Are Polish CLIL learners more willing to communicate in English than non-CLIL learners?
Psychology of Language and Communication, 2023 Willingness to communicate (WTC) is the probability that one will choose to initiate communication given the opportunity to do so. We investigated the second language (L2) WTC (L2WTC) in Polish teenagers aged 16-19 (N = 177) attending bilingual Content ...
Plichta Paulina +2 more
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Participar o no participar: Willingness To Communicate (WTC) en la enseñanza de español a distancia para sinohablantes [PDF]
Este trabajo presenta nuevos datos sobre la implementación y el modelo teórico Willingness to Communicate (WTC) en la enseñanza de español como segunda lengua.
Chen, Wei +3 more
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Willingness to Communicate (WTC) among Intermediate-level Adult Turkish EFL Learners: Underlying Factors [PDF]
, 2017 WOS: 000461078300003The present qualitative study investigates the underlying factors of willingness to communicate (WTC) among intermediate-level adult Turkish EFL learners studying at the school of foreign languages of Anadolu University.
Aydın, Fatma, Fatma Aydın
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