@inproceedings{bbd26903fb2741129376381e6a74c129,
title = "An investigation of students{\textquoteright} perception on willingness to communicate behavior and synchronous communication",
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{\textquoteright} 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{\textquoteright} perceptions on several WTC behaviors were ranked much higher than those were lower. The modes of SCs positively associated with learner{\textquoteright}s WTC accordingly.",
keywords = "English as a target language, Synchronous communication, Willingness to communicate behaviors",
author = "Shih, {Mei Jen Audrey} and Yang, {Jie Chi}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.; 1st International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2016 Held in Conjunction with ICWL 2016 ; Conference date: 26-10-2016 Through 29-10-2016",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-52836-6_68",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
isbn = "9783319528359",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "647--653",
editor = "Rosella Gennari and Yiwei Cao and Yueh-Min Huang and Wu Wu and Haoran Xie",
booktitle = "Emerging Technologies for Education - 1st International Symposium, SETE 2016 Held in Conjunction with ICWL 2016, Revised Selected Papers",
}