An investigation of students’ perception on willingness to communicate behavior and synchronous communication

Mei Jen Audrey Shih, Jie Chi Yang

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Abstract

In English as a target language (TL) learning environment, it always takes effort to encourage learners to open and engage in a conversation for English communication practice. Moreover, the shorts of communication practice might be influencing their perceptions which are corresponding to a variety of willingness to communicate (WTC) behaviors. On the other hand, a mode of engaging synchronous communication (SC) to facilitate English as a TL communication has been positively addressed. As a result, the current study attempts to investigate what features of WTC behaviors would influence English learners’ WTC, and whether an engagement of SC would influence to their WTC respectively. The participants were the first year non-English majored college students. Questionnaires with open-ended questions were applied to gather the data. The results showed learners’ perceptions on several WTC behaviors were ranked much higher than those were lower. The modes of SCs positively associated with learner’s WTC accordingly.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEmerging Technologies for Education - 1st International Symposium, SETE 2016 Held in Conjunction with ICWL 2016, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsRosella Gennari, Yiwei Cao, Yueh-Min Huang, Wu Wu, Haoran Xie
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages647-653
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9783319528359
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event1st International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2016 Held in Conjunction with ICWL 2016 - Rome, Italy
Duration: 26 Oct 201629 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10108 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2016 Held in Conjunction with ICWL 2016
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period26/10/1629/10/16

Keywords

  • English as a target language
  • Synchronous communication
  • Willingness to communicate behaviors

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