Title : ( Examining the relationships between willingness tocommunicate in English, communication confidence and classroom environment )
Authors: Behzad Ghonsooly , Azar Hosseini Fatemi , Gholam Hassan Khajavy Fadafen ,
Full TextAbstract
The purpose of the present study is to examine the Iranian EFL learners' level of willingness to communicate in English, and the relationships between willingness to communicate, communication confidence, and classroom environment. For this purpose, 243 Iranian EFL learners participated in this study. Results of the descriptive statistics indicated that participants were moderately willing to communicate in English inside the language classroom, felt low levels of anxiety, and perceived themselves moderately confident to communicate in English in the classroom. Correlational analyses also indicated that willingness to communicate is positively correlated with classroom environment and perceived communicative competence, and negatively correlated with communication anxiety.
Keywords
, willingness to communicate, percieved communicative competence, communication anxiety
@article{paperid:1040240,
author = {Ghonsooly, Behzad and Hosseini Fatemi, Azar and Khajavy Fadafen, Gholam Hassan},
title = {Examining the relationships between willingness tocommunicate in English, communication confidence and classroom environment},
journal = {International Journal of Research Studies in Educational Technology},
year = {2013},
volume = {3},
number = {1},
month = {October},
issn = {2243-7738},
pages = {1--9},
numpages = {8},
keywords = {willingness to communicate; percieved communicative competence; communication anxiety},
}
%0 Journal Article
%T Examining the relationships between willingness tocommunicate in English, communication confidence and classroom environment
%A Ghonsooly, Behzad
%A Hosseini Fatemi, Azar
%A Khajavy Fadafen, Gholam Hassan
%J International Journal of Research Studies in Educational Technology
%@ 2243-7738
%D 2013
