Investigating situational willingness to communicate within second language classrooms from an ecological perspective

Y Cao - System, 2011 - Elsevier
Previous research into willingness to communicate (WTC) in L2 has focused primarily on its
trait dispositions that remain stable across contexts and its situated nature is under explored …

Interactional context and willingness to communicate: A comparison of behavior in whole class, group and dyadic interaction

Y Cao, J Philp - System, 2006 - Elsevier
This article reports on a study that investigated the dual characteristics of willingness to
communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2): trait-like WTC and situational WTC. By …

To talk or not to talk: A review of situational antecedents of willingness to communicate in the second language classroom

J Zhang, N Beckmann, JF Beckmann - System, 2018 - Elsevier
Willingness to communicate (WTC) used to be seen as a stable, trait-like communicative
tendency; however, in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), attention has recently …

A sociocognitive perspective on second language classroom willingness to communicate

Y Cao - Tesol Quarterly, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This article reports on a multiple case study that investigated the dynamic and situated
nature of learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) in second language (L2) classrooms …

Situated willingness to communicate in an L2: Interplay of individual characteristics and context

T Yashima, PD MacIntyre… - Language Teaching …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Recently, situated willingness to communicate (WTC) has received increasing research
attention in addition to traditional quantitative studies of trait-like WTC. This article is an …

The roles of multimodal pedagogic effects and classroom environment in willingness to communicate in English

JE Peng - System, 2019 - Elsevier
Multimodality has become a prominent concept in communication and language education
research, and pedagogic discourse in second language (L2) classrooms is fundamentally …

Exploring dynamism in willingness to communicate: A longitudinal case study

Y Cao - Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2013 - jbe-platform.com
This paper examines dynamism in students' situational willingness to communicate (WTC)
within a second language classroom. This longitudinal study involved twelve English as a …

Dynamic emergence of situational willingness to communicate in a second language

SJ Kang - System, 2005 - Elsevier
This article reports on a qualitative study that shows how situational willingness to
communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) can dynamically emerge and fluctuate …

Investigating the nature of classroom willingness to communicate (WTC): A micro-perspective

M Pawlak, A Mystkowska-Wiertelak… - Language Teaching …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent years have witnessed a shift in empirical investigations of language learners'
willingness to communicate (WTC) from quantitative studies examining the ways in which …

Willingness to communicate and its high-evidence factors: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach

S Jin, H Lee - Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study aimed to synthesize the structural relationships among willingness to
communicate (WTC) and its high-evidence factors in second language (L2) learning …