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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Willingness to Communicate"”.
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Chinese Tertiary Students' Willingness to Communicate in English
… China who study abroad, many initially struggle to engage with native English speakers due to limited opportunities to develop oral English skills within their homeland (Gu and Maley, 2008). The reasons why Chinese students' may exhibit varied levels of motivation to engage with others when they …
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An Investigation of English Learners' Willingness to Communicate in a Linguistically Diverse Setting
… OF THE DISSERTATION OF Xiang Shen for the Doctor of Philosophy in Education degree with a concentration in Curriculum and Instruction, presented on December 12, 2016 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: AN INVESTIGATION OF ENGLISH LEARNERS’ WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE IN A …
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The importance of intercultural willingness-to-communicate in reducing ethnocentrism and behaviors associated with ethnocentrism
… social intelligence, and intercultural willingness-to-communicate with ethnocentrism and intended behaviors associated with ethnocentrism. Data collected from a group administered survey of 497 undergraduates at a small private university and junior college in the western United States …
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The effect of immersive conversational AI on immigrant students' second language production and willingness to communicate
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Measuring Japanese University Students' Readiness for Second-language Group Work and Its Relation to Willingness to Communicate
… Readiness for L2 Group Work and its relationship to Willingness to Communicate in L2 Group Work in a Japanese university. Readiness for L2 Group Work is defined as learners' self-perception of the degree to which they are prepared cognitively and affectively for L2 group work. It consists of …
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A longitudinal latent growth modeling perspective on communication apprehension, self-perceived communication competence, and willingness to communicate
… well known communication constructs, namely willingness to communicate (WTC), self-perceived communication competence (SPCC), and communication apprehension (CA). Specifically, this research found that students' WTC and SPCC scores increased linearly during the semester and their CA scores …
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Shyness and EFL learning in Taiwan : a study of shy and non-shy college students' use of strategies, foreign language anxiety, motivation, and willingness to communicate
… In Chinese society, individuals are encouraged to restrain personal desires in the interest and wellbeing of the greater good. Given the cultural endorsement of internalized self-control, shy children in Chinese culture are favored for their seeming social competence and selfdiscipline; they are …
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Examining the relationship between group work and students’ willingness to participate
… work as an instructional strategy was assessed to determine the effect it has on students’ willingness to communicate, communication apprehension, and self-perceived competence. Students enrolled in a basic public speaking at a major Midwestern university completed Neer’s (1987) Classroom …
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It's not always about the issues: The role of perceived personality trait similarity on interpersonal political discussion.
Recently a substantial body of work has sought to identify and understand the relationship between personality traits and political attitudes, opinions and behaviors. One specific line of inquiry has been on the direct and mediated influence of personality traits on interpersonal political …
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Creating an Energetic Classroom: A Handbook for ESL Teachers
… from both the student side and the instructor side. The first aspect explored is the silence of students. Because speech shows the process of language acquisition and is also the precondition of language acquisition, it is crucial to discover and understand the reasons for some students’ …
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Contact, Disclosure, Stereotypes, and Attitudes Toward People with Physical Disabilities: The Mediator Effects of Intergroup Anxiety and Social Support
… contact with an invisible physical disability on willingness to communicate with, stereotypes, and attitudes toward people with physical disabilities as a group. In addition, the current study tested the mediator effects of social support (Hypothesized Model 1) and intergroup communication anxiety …
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Expatriate selection : are high self-monitors better expatriates?
… reality for large corporations for many years. To penetrate these new markets abroad, many firms have decided to use expatriates. It has been well documented in the literature that expatriate assignments are subject to very high failure rates. In the literature on expatriate adjustment several …
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JAPANESE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' WILLINGNESS TO USE ENGLISH WITH DIFFERENT INTERLOCUTORS
Willingness to communicate (WTC) arose out of the search for a construct to explain why some people are more likely to speak in a particular communication situation than others facing the same situation (MacIntyre, Dörnyei, Clément, & Noels, 1998). This study investigated the extent to which 1,789 …
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Associations in Nurses’ Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture Within the Hospital Setting: A Secondary Analysis of the 2018 HSOPS Database
Within the hospital setting there continues to be concerns around a lack of effective leadership that cultivates a patient safety culture, which includes leaders’ insufficient support of patient safety event reporting, their lack of responding to staff and others who report patient safety gaps, …
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Communication Apprehension Among Business and Accounting Students
… of the importance of effective communication in today‟s global, dynamic business world, accounting and business education programmes place considerable emphasis on the development of communication competencies among students. However, not all students appear to benefit as desired from …
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Generation Z, Employee Enagement And Leadership Communication Behaviors
… unique characteristics, including an ability to use technology and consume online data in accelerated ways. Much has been written about the Millennials but little can be found in the current literature about Generation Z and workplace behaviors. The purpose of this quantitative correlational …
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A study of student-veterans and academic engagement
… are discharged from the military and are forced to make the decision of what to do with the rest of their lives. For an increasingly large percentage of such veterans, the decision that they will make will be to become full-time college students and pursue an education that will provide them with …
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Learner Attitudes Toward Studying English in a Rural Japanese University: Motivation, WTC, and Preferences for Instructional Activities
… students in a rural area of Japan. In addition to traditional motivation measures, measures of group dynamics thought to be relevant to classroom motivation and L2 Willingness to Communicate (WTC),which has recently caught interest both as an influence on and valued outcome of second language …
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Japanese University Students’ L2 Communication Frequency in Positive Classroom Climate
The primary purpose of study is to identify predictors of willingness to communicate (WTC) and of actual frequency of English communication at work inside and outside the foreign language classroom among 439 university students (male = 226, female = 213) learning English in Japan. Based on Wen and …