Willingness To Communicate Multilingualism And Interactions In Community Contexts
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Willingness to Communicate, Multilingualism and Interactions in Community Contexts
Author: Alastair Henry
language: en
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Release Date: 2023-10-10
This book presents the findings of an in-depth qualitative longitudinal investigation into the willingness to communicate (WTC) of individuals who, through varying migration channels, left one cultural/linguistic context to make a new life in another. It examines communication behaviours and language choice in multilingual community contexts and emphasises how even the most trivial of communication events are embedded in histories of previous communication and are influenced by emotions connected with a person’s overall life situation. The book fills a gap in contemporary WTC research by examining how WTC operates in multilingual community contexts. Through the use of a complexity lens and the presentation of a revised 3D pyramid model, the authors demonstrate the dynamic nature of WTC and shed new light on processes that affect communication, migration and well-being. This book will be of interest to researchers seeking to explore individual differences using context sensitive and temporally focused designs.
Empowering the English Language Teacher in a Multipolar Environment
This edited volume focuses on the changing landscape of English language learning and teaching. It equips English language teachers with cutting-edge knowledge and developments in English language learning and teaching which they need to teach a diverse body of learners and instruct in a multipolar environment. The chapter contributors are among the high-standing and most knowledgeable scholars in the subject area who, in the four sections of the book, provide the reader with the recent developments, changes, and research in the sociocultural and socio-educational aspects of ELT, ELT teacher education and teacher identity, ELT paradigm shifts, and diversity in ELT. The book empowers English language teachers to teach in educational contexts where diversity, variety, complexity and fluidity are paramount. The book is a must-read for English language teachers, professionals, practitioners, researchers and ELT teacher trainees and trainers. It can also be used by TESOL, TESL/TEFL and Applied Linguistics students, researchers and lecturers at BA, MA and PhD levels.
Willingness to Communicate in the Chinese EFL University Classroom
This book presents mixed-methods research into Chinese students' willingness to communicate (WTC) in an EFL classroom context. The interrelationships between WTC and motivation, communication confidence, learner beliefs and classroom environment are examined using structural equation modelling on data collected in a large-scale survey. These results are then complemented and expanded upon in a follow-up multiple case-study that identifies six themes which account for fluctuations of WTC over time and across situations. The qualitative and quantitative data provide the grounds for the proposition of an ecological model of WTC in the Chinese EFL university classroom, which reveals that WTC is socioculturally constructed as a function of the interaction of individual and environmental factors inside and beyond the classroom walls.