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Willingness to Communicate in the Chinese EFL University Classroom: An Ecological Perspective
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Willingness to Communicate in the Chinese EFL University Classroom: An Ecological Perspective

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This book presents mixed-methods research into Chinese students' willingness to communicate (WTC) in an EFL classroom context. The interrelationships between WTC and motivation, communication confidence, learner beliefs and classroom environment are examined using structural equation modelling on data collected in a large-scale survey. These results are then complemented and expanded upon in a follow-up multiple case-study that identifies six themes which account for fluctuations of WTC over time and across situations. The qualitative and quantitative data provide the grounds for the proposition of an ecological model of WTC in the Chinese EFL university classroom, which reveals that WTC is socioculturally constructed as a function of the interaction of individual and environmental factors inside and beyond the classroom walls.

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Release dateFeb 26, 2014
ISBN9781783091577
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Willingness to Communicate in the Chinese EFL University Classroom: An Ecological Perspective
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Jian E. Peng

Jian-E Peng is a professor in the College of Liberal Arts, Shantou University, China. She holds a PhD from the University of Sydney. Her main works include the book Willingness to communicate in the Chinese EFL university classroom: An ecological perspective (Multilingual Matters), two book chapters respectively in The dynamic interplay between context and the language learner (Palgrave Macmillan) and English language teaching in China: New approaches, perspectives, and standards (Continuum), and a number of papers published in Language Learning, TESOL Quarterly, System, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Linguistics and Education, Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, Sage Open, and University of Sydney Papers in TESOL.

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