Sustainable Development of EFL/ESL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate: The Effects of Teachers and Teaching Styles

Willingness to communicate in a second or foreign language (L2 WTC) is an important individual difference variable that influences the target learning process. To cultivate students’ communicative competence for sustainable development and help them become active citizens of global world, teachers educators need understand L2 WTC find ways promote it. The present study explores effects teaching styles (TTS) on Chinese learners English, through comparison group 148 students mainland China 73 abroad. Respondents filled out online questionnaires concerning their attitudes perceptions TTS self-reported inside outside classrooms. Eight also participated interviews. Results revealed significant differences between two groups generally low among them. were linked more strongly China. are attributed discrepancy social expectations, culture opportunity use English classroom while This may provide insights into pedagogy from perspective as pluricentric language.