doi: 10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.6.451
Effects of Situational Factors on L2 Learners’ Willingness to Communicate in Group Work Settings
Liao Jiayi *
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- Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China.
Abstract
Verbal engagement of language learners is of vitalimportance in L2 class. However, Chinese L2 learners tend toremain reticent in class, since they want to show respect to theirteachers and avoid making mistakes. Therefore, investigationsinto L2 learners’ willingness to communicate in group settingshas received much attention in recent years. On this basis, thisstudy focuses on the willingness to communicate of non-Englishmajor juniors, and aims to investigate Chinese English learners’WTC level in L2 group work, explore the relationship betweenlanguage proficiency of L2 learners and their WTC in groupwork settings, and find out several situational variables thatinfluence L2 learners’ WTC in L2 group work. The results showthat: 1) student participants generally show relatively high levelof willingness to communicate (Mean=32.835) in group work; 2)the higher the L2 proficiency of the L2 learners, the higher theirWTC level in the process of communicating in group work; 3)as for situational variables, students report higher WTC levelwhen familiar or self-related topics are used and when theywork in groups. And if students work in groups, they wouldprefer having some wait and prepare time before startingdiscussing with group members.
Keywords
- Second language communication
- situationalWillingness to Communicate (WTC)
- situational variables
- group work
How to Cite
Liao Jiayi and Dong Junhong, "Effects of Situational Factors on L2 Learners’ Willingness to Communicate in Group Work Settings," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 460-463, 2023. https://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.6.451
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