EFL students’ views of willingness to communicate in the extramural digital context

By Ju Seong Lee. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019

104 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract This study examined factors that might have affected EFL learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in the extramural digital (ED) environment, a rapidly emerging L2 communication context. The investigator conducted a semi-structured interview with 98 EFL students from three Korean universities. Drawing on grounded theory, socio-political (Korea’s K-12 instruction), contextual (familiarity with interlocutors and communities), and individual variables (L2 self-confidence and anxiety) emerged as major sources of influence on participants’ L2 WTC. Additionally, these sub-variables appeared to interact simultaneously during L2 communication in the ED context. This study contributes to further advancing our understanding of L2 WTC in a CALL environment. It also offers pedagogical insights into how L2 teachers can facilitate EFL learners’ WTC in a range of extramural digital environments where their L2 WTC is very different from face-to-face classroom and extracurricular digital settings.

Subfields: Education, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/edc19b50fa43a594b17370e36b4fd516a1a74d03

Citations in the corpus

• L2 motivational self system and willingness to communicate in the classroom and extramural digital contexts (2021, unknown): “…contexts, the nature of extra-mural digital contexts was further compared with that of extracurricular digital contexts, which is understood as out-of-class digital environments that are still connected with a formal English program (e.g., flipped classroom; Lee, 2019; Hsieh, Wu, & Marek, 2017).”
• Informal digital learning of English and L2 willingness to communicate: roles of emotions, gender, and educational stage (2021, unknown): “IDLE can be conceptualised more clearly in terms of Benson ’ s (2011) four aspects of L2 learning beyond the classroom (Lee 2019b, 115): (1) Formality – whether the language learning experience is formally structured and a certi fi cate is granted (e.g. formal, non-formal, or informal); (2) Location…”