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Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language: The Effects of Context, Norms, and Vitality
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This paper focused on second language (L2) acquisition as a tool for promoting intercultural communication and used the social context model to emphasize the importance of contacategorical information for L2 acquisition.Abstract:
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 contac...read more
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Integrative Motivation in a Globalizing World.
TL;DR: This article found that very high levels of motivation to learn the language were found throughout the cohort, including both integrative and instrumental orientations, but these two traditionally distinct constructs were found to be almost indistinguishable.
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Dynamic emergence of situational willingness to communicate in a second language
TL;DR: The authors found that situational willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) can dynamically emerge and fluctuate during a conversation situation, from inductive analysis of data from interviews, videotaped conversations, and stimulated recalls.
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Interactional context and willingness to communicate: A comparison of behavior in whole class, group and dyadic interaction
Yiqian Cao,Jenefer Philp +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated the dual characteristics of willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2): trait-like WTC and situational WTC, by adopting methods of classroom observation, participant interviews and questionnaires, consistency between L2 learners' self-report WTC and their actual WTC behavior in an L2 classroom was examined.
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Willingness to Communicate in English: A Model in the Chinese EFL Classroom Context
Jian-E Peng,Lindy Woodrow +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a large-scale investigation of willingness to communicate (WTC) in Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms was carried out.
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Anxiety and predictors of performance in the foreign language classroom
Sae Matsuda,Peter Gobel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the possible relationships between general foreign language classroom anxiety, reading anxiety, gender, extended overseas experience, and classroom performance in first-semester English classes at a Japanese university.
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Martin Fishbein,Icek Ajzen +1 more
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Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions
Leona S. Aiken,Stephen G. West +1 more
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Alternative Ways of Assessing Model Fit
Michael W. Browne,Robert Cudeck +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two types of error involved in fitting a model are considered, error of approximation and error of fit, where the first involves the fit of the model, and the second involves the model's shape.
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Attitudes, Personality and Behavior
TL;DR: The theory and research in personality and social psychology the principle of aggregation - creating stability and consistency moderating variables - effects of individual differences, characteristics of the disposition, situational factors, and type of behaviour theory of planned behaviour - prediction of specific actions with varying degrees of volitional control as mentioned in this paper.