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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Investigating Situational Willingness to Communicate within Second Language Classrooms from an Ecological Perspective
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Cao, Yiqian – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2011
Previous research into willingness to communicate (WTC) in L2 has focused primarily on its trait dispositions that remain stable across contexts and its situated nature is under explored. Framed with an ecological perspective on second language learning, this multiple case study investigated the dynamic and situated nature of WTC in second…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Holistic Approach, Case Studies, Observation
Interactional Context and Willingness to Communicate: A Comparison of Behavior in Whole Class, Group and Dyadic Interaction
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Cao, Yiqian; Philp, Jenefer – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2006
This article reports on a study that investigated the dual characteristics of willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2): trait-like WTC and situational WTC. By adopting methods of classroom observation, participant interviews and questionnaires, consistency between L2 learners' self-report WTC and their actual WTC behavior in an…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Second Language Learning, Familiarity, Interviews