Learner-internal and learner-external predictors of Willingness to Communicate in the FL Classroom

Willingness to Communicate (WTC), defined as “a readiness to enter into discourse at a particular time with a specific person or persons, using a L2” (MacIntyre, Dörnyei, Clément & Noels, 1998, p. 547), is influenced by a complex interplay of interacting learner-internal variables (including soc...

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Main Authors: Jean-Marc Dewaele, Livia Dewaele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: White Rose University Press 2018-08-01
Series:Journal of the European Second Language Association
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Online Access:https://www.euroslajournal.org/articles/37