Willingness to Communicate of Foreign Language Learners : A WTC Study in a Chinese Setting

ISBN-13: 9783639163896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 152 str.

Miao Yu

Opis

As an English language learner and teacher,I havewitnessed a common phenomenon of a mismatch betweenlearners'' willingness to communicate in English andtheir actual English proficiency. It was not unusualthat individuals who could obtain high scores instandardized English proficiency tests, such asTOEFL, GRE, and GMAT, could barely carry outpragmatic conversation in English. The lack ofpractice opportunities in the environment, in whichEnglish was primarily studied as a school subject andused exclusively inside the classroom, seemed to bethe principal reason for students'' low capability inEnglish communication. However, not until I became ateacher of an Oral English class a couple of yearsago did I realize that most of the students in theclass were reluctant to participate in Englishcommunication even when they were given sufficientcommunication opportunities.This book is expected to answer the followingquestions: What are the causes of students''unwillingness to communicate in English? What factorscould be influential toward students'' Englishcommunication willingness? How could the factors, ifany, affect students'' willingness to communicate inEnglish?

O autorze

Miao Yu was born in China. She obtained her B. A. degree in
Business English at Chengdu University of Technology in 1998. She
went to the United States in 2003. Miao obtained her M. S. degree
in Higher Education in 2005 and her Ph.D. in Multilingual and
Multicultural Education in 2009 at Florida State University.