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    Willingness to Communicate in Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Combining a Macro- and Micro-Perspective
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    Willingness to Communicate in Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Combining a Macro- and Micro-Perspective
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    Willingness to Communicate in Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Combining a Macro- and Micro-Perspective
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    Willingness to Communicate in Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Combining a Macro- and Micro-Perspective

    By Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak and Mirosław Pawlak

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    This book offers a comprehensive account of individual differences variables as well as contextual factors that impinge on second language learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC). Firstly, it adopts a macro-perspective on WTC, which entails an attempt to identify variables that are related to WTC, taking into account the specificity of the Polish higher education setting. Secondly, it embraces a micro-perspective on WTC, striving to pinpoint the individual and contextual influences on levels of WTC in the course of regularly-scheduled, naturally-occurring English classes, as well as to capture the dynamic nature of WTC during such classes. Together, these perspectives bring the reader closer to understanding the mechanisms underlying WTC in specific contexts, thereby providing a basis for recommendations for classroom practice that could translate into learners’ success. It will be of interest to second language acquisition researchers and students, as well as to methodologists and materials writers who can use the research findings to improve the practice of teaching and learning speaking in the language classroom.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMultilingual Matters
    Release dateFeb 17, 2017
    ISBN9781783097180
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    Willingness to Communicate in Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Combining a Macro- and Micro-Perspective
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    Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak

    Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Studies of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań/Kalisz, Poland as well as Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Modern Languages of the State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland. Her main interests comprise, apart from teacher education, second language acquisition theory and research, language learning strategies, learner autonomy, form-focused instruction, willingness to communicate, and motivation. Her recent publications include Production-oriented and Comprehension-based Grammar Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom (with Mirosław Pawlak, Springer, 2012) and Willingness to Communicate in Instructed Second Language Acquisition (with Mirosław Pawlak, Multilingual Matters, 2017). Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak is Assistant to the Editor of the journal Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching (www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl).

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