Search results for "willingness to communicate"
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Can the neuroticism-willingness to communicate relationship across languages be explained by anxiety?
2021
This study focuses on the role of neuroticism in shaping L1 and L2 users’ communicative behaviour, as represented by the L1/L2 users’ willingness to communicate (WTC). It was expected that this relationship could be explained by language-specific forms of anxiety: communication apprehension (CA) in L1 communication, and language anxiety (LA) in L2 communication. The participants were 621 Polish secondary grammar school students at the intermediate to upper-intermediate levels of English proficiency. Two mediation analyses revealed that for L1 communication, neuroticism was significantly related to WTC, with CA mediating this relationship. For L2 communication, in contrast, this relationship…
Studying Second Language Acquisition from a Qualitative Perspective
2014
Part I Introducing Qualitative Research.- Sociological and Educational Roots of Qualitative Research in Applied Linguistics.- Are the Only Things That Count the Things That Can Be Counted? On Modeling as a Cognitive Tool in the Field of Foreign Language Learning and Teaching.- Part II Qualitative Methods in Studying Second Language Acquisition.- Pronunciation Learning Strategy Chains: A Qualitative Approach.- Fostering Strategy Use in a Reading-Based Course in EFL Academic Context: Students' Perspectives.- Reflective Teaching in an English Primary Classroom.- Junior High School Learners' Ability to Reflect in the Process of Keeping a Diary in a Foreign Language.- Qualitative Evaluation of E…
Tackling bullying: Victimized by peers as a pupil, an effective intervener as a teacher?
2009
Abstract The present study focuses on student teachers as a prospective special resource in the prevention of school bullying in the course of their future professional careers. Special attention is paid to the influence the respondents' own childhood experiences of bullying may have in this regard. To investigate this question, we assessed the respondents' estimations of the level of empathy they felt towards the victims of bullying, the degree of effort they made to prevent bullying, and their ability to identify it. Further, an attempt to assess the long-term consequences of bullying was made, using two different communicative indices: the willingness to communicate and self-perceived co…
Classroom context's influence on students' willingness to communicate : a study of upper secondary school students' views
2015
Suullisen kielitaidon harjoittelua vieraissa kielissä sekä asenteita sitä kohtaan on tutkittu melko paljon niin Suomessa, kuin muualla maailmassakin (ks. esim. Mäkelä 2005 tai Yli-Renko ja Salo-Lee 1991). Sen sijaan oppilaiden ja opiskelijoiden halukkuudesta puhua vieraita kieliä, tässä tapauksessa erityisesti englantia, ei suomalaisessa kontekstissa ole tutkimustietoa. Kielen opettamisen kannalta olisi kuitenkin tärkeää ymmärtää, miten oppilaat ja opiskelijat kokevat oman halukkuuteensa puhua englantia, ja miten erilaiset tilanteet oppitunnilla siihen vaikuttavat. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena onkin selvittää suomalaisten lukiolaisten halukkuutta puhua englantia erityisesti oppitunnilla,…
Positive Predictive Value of Extraversion in Diagnosing L2WTC
2021
Willingness to communicate in a foreign/second language (L2 WTC) is now considered an influential variable underlying the second and foreign language learning processes. It is also perceived in terms of a fundamental goal of second language education, because its higher levels result in a greater desire to practise oral communication, bringing about successful language learning. According to the pyramid model of L2 WTC, it is rooted in personality which produces both distal and enduring influences on a student’s verbal behaviour. It can thus be expected that extraversion, a personality dimension identified with energy and enthusiasm and characterised by sensitivity to reward and sociability…
Teachers' effect on learners' willingness to communicate in L2
2014
Kielenopetuksen tutkimuksessa sekä pedagogiikassa on viime vuosina korostettu merkityksellistä viestintää, minkä johdosta myös oppijan halu viestiä vieraalla kielellä on noussut alan tutkimuksessa keskiöön. Kasvavasta kiinnostuksesta huolimatta on opettajan käytöksen ja opetusmenetelmien vaikutus oppilaiden kielenkäytön halukkuuteen toistaiseksi melko vähän tutkittu tekijä. Tästä syystä tämä tutkielma selvittää suomalaisten kielenoppijoiden käsityksiä siitä, kuinka opettajien käytös ja opetusmenetelmät vaikuttavat heidän valmiuteensa käyttää englantia opetustilanteessa. Lisäksi tutkimuksessa raportoidaan oppilaiden ajatuksia siitä, millä tavoin opettaja pystyy käytöksellään nostamaan oppila…