Overview
- Includes a wide range of chapters on EFL learners' willingness to communicate in a second language
- Presents novel methodological approaches to the study of willingness to communicate
- Includes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies on willingness to communicate
- Explores how culture and technology influence willingness to communicate in a second language
Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)
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This edited collection provides a state-of-the art overview of research on willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second and foreign language. In particular, it includes innovative studies seeking to demonstrate the ways in which WTC can be examined within the framework of complex dynamic systems, how the construct is related to self-assessment, reticence and extroversion, and what is signifies in the case of immigrants. Another group of papers is related to the role of technology in fostering WTC in different contexts. The volume also comprises papers that touch on methodological issues in the study of WTC such as experience case sampling, the network approach or the integration of the macro- and micro-perspective. The book will be of values to researchers interested in the study of WTC but will also provide inspiration for students, teachers and materials writers.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Perspectives on Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language
Editors: Nourollah Zarrinabadi, Mirosław Pawlak
Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67634-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67633-9Published: 04 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67636-0Published: 04 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67634-6Published: 03 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2193-7648
Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 264
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Applied Linguistics