Willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) is believed to have a direct and sustained influence on learners’ actual usage frequency of the targeted language. To help overcome the lack of suitable environments to increase L2 learners’ WTC, our approach is to implement a WTC model based conversational agent. In this paper, we focus on the dialogue management aspects of our approac...

This study explored the effect of input vs. collaborative output tasks on Iranian EFL learners’ grammatical accuracy and their willingness to communicate (WTC). In so doing, the study utilized 3 input (i.e., textual enhancement, processing instruction, and discourse) and 3 collaborative output (i.e., dictogloss, reconstruction cloze task, and jigsaw) tasks and compared their effects on 5 Englis...

Willingness to communicate (WTC) construct plays an important role in second language (L2) teaching and learning. Almost any second language learner is likely to respond to a direct question, but many will not continue or initiate communication. The present study investigates Pakistani undergraduate students' perception of their willingness to initiate communication in English across four types...

This study examines a group of Saudi military cadets studying English as foreign language and their willingness to communicate (WTC) using English. The investigated the relationship between cadets’ WTC vocabulary size, along with perceived competence. In addition, looked at L2 anxiety. A survey was designed for administered 113 an average age 20 years old. Correlation regression analyses reveal...

When English is regarded as the lingual franca in global world, learners’ communicative competence emphasized. In China, however, most of L2 willingness to communicate and relatively low. This article focus on how improve Chinese IELTS poor classroom. I mainly use guided strategic planning narrative tasks enhance fluency complexity.

This study attempts to answer one straightforward question: “what is the relationship between students’ proficiency level and their willingness communicate?”, i.e., “readiness enter into discourse at a particular time with specific person or persons”, using an L2. Understanding link WTC important as great deal of effort expended by teachers worldwide on encouraging learners engage in L2, intera...