Affective variables and willingness to communicate of EFL learners in in-class, out-of-class, and digital contexts
By Ju Seong Lee, Jun Chen Hsieh. System (Linköping), 2019
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Abstract This study explores the relationship between affective variables (L2 self-confidence, L2 anxiety, L2 motivation, and grit) and willingness to communicate (WTC) in in-class, out-of-class, and digital contexts. Drawing on a quantitative research design and a sample of 261 Taiwanese EFL undergraduate students, two major findings were identified. First, students with higher levels of grit and L2 confidence had higher L2 WTC in all three communicative settings. It suggests that 1) if EFL students remain steadfast and persistent in learning and using English despite setbacks, and 2) if they are confident about communicating in English, they tend to initiate English communication in both digital and offline settings. Second, lack of L2 anxiety was a significant predictor of students’ L2 WTC in non-digital environments (in-class and out-of-class contexts), but not in the digital setting. This suggests that contemporary EFL students may feel more comfortable with digital methods of communicating than conventional offline approaches, whether they use L1 or L2. The study also implies that digital environments may provide social support and additional psychological benefits, which potentially contribute to creating less L2 anxiety-provoking environment for EFL students. Drawn from these findings, pedagogical implications for ELT are also provided.
Subfields: Information Systems, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- L2 motivational self system and willingness to communicate in the classroom and extramural digital contexts (2021, unknown): “…have found that such out-of-class English activities are positively associated with L2 WTC in an extramural digital context among Korean EFL university students (Lee, 2019; Lee & Dressman, 2018; Lee & Lee, 2020b) and Taiwanese EFL university students (Lee & Hsieh, 2019; Lee, Lee, & Hsieh, 2019).”
- Informal digital learning of English and L2 willingness to communicate: roles of emotions, gender, and educational stage (2021, methodology): “Further, previous research reported mixed fi ndings on the relationship between gender and L2 WTC, with some fi nding a positive relationship (Lee and Hsieh 2019), but others not fi nding such a relationship (Tavakoli and Davoudi 2017).”