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  title info:
    title: Willingness to communicate in the Chinese EFL university classroom
    sub title: an ecological perspective
  name:
    name part: Peng, Jian-E.
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: uk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 204 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Part 1 The Research of Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language; 1 Introduction; 2 Hybrid Perspectives on WTC in an L2; Part 2 The Big Picture: Interrelationships between WTC, Communication Confi dence, Motivation, Learner Beliefs and Classroom Environment (Phase 1: Questionnaire Survey); 3 Dimensions of WTC, Confidence, Motivation, Beliefs and Classroom Environment; 4 Interrelationships between WTC, Confidence, Motivation, Beliefs and Environment on WTC: A Full Structural Model.
  table of contents: Part 3 A Situated Lens: WTC Fluctuations over Time and Across Classroom Situations(Phase 2: A Multiple-Case Study); 5 Four Cases and their WTC Fluctuations; 6 Distal and Proximal Influences on WTC Fluctuations; Part 4 Blending 'Apple Juice' and 'Orange Juice': Integration of Overall Findings; 7 WTC Inside the Language Classroom and Beyond; 8 Concluding Remarks; Appendix 1: Factor Loadings; Appendix 2: Questionnaire; Appendix 3: Correlation Matrix for the Structural Model; Appendix 4: Interview Guide; Appendix 5: Classroom Observation Scheme; Appendix 6: Learning Journal Framework.
  table of contents: Appendix 7: Coding Scheme; References; Index.
  note: Jian-E. Peng.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Classroom management
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Communication in foreign language education
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Study and teaching
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Study and teaching
    topic: Chinese speakers
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Study and teaching
    topic: Chinese speakers
  subject:
    topic: Second language acquisition
  subject:
    topic: Second language acquisition
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Study and teaching
    topic: Chinese speakers
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Classroom management
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Communication in foreign language education
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
  classification: PE1130 .C4 P49 2014eb
  classification: 428.0071
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Willingness to Communicate in the Chinese EFL University Classroom : An Ecological Perspective
    name:
      name part: Peng, Jian-E.
    origin info:
      publisher: Clevedon : Channel View Publications, ©2014
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Second language acquisition
  identifier: 9781783091560 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1783091568 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 140301
    record change date: 20250816204848.2
    record identifier: in00003464531
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng