The Impact of Willingness to Communicate on Iranian EFL Learners Speaking Ability
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 8, Issue 11
Abstract
This study attempted to look into Iranian EFL learners' degree of willingness to communicate in English. The sample were only male students at age group, 16 to 22, and with various motivations and goals in learning English, and the data were collected from the language institute the researcher had easy access to. Also the subjects, which consisted of 60 people, were divided into two groups, one control group, and the other experimental group, each consisting of 30 students. The researcher randomly selected four intact classes of students to take part in the questionnaire survey. The participants had studied English for 2 years; they were at pre-intermediate level. For the qualitative part of this study, which could reveal the selected students’ actual WTC behavior, thirty students were selected to hold talking sessions with. The other 30 students formed the control group. Interview data were analyzed quantitatively by ANCOVA in order to find the relationship between the students' level of WTC and speaking test. It was found out at both tests; talking sessions were effective and experimental group outperformed the control group. Based on the statistical procedures on the gathered data, we were on the safe grounds to claim that there was a statistically significant relationship between Iranian students' WTC and their degree of learning English.
Authors and Affiliations
Seyyed Mohsen Tousi| Department of English, Malayer Branch, Islamic Azad University, Malayer, Iran., Hamidreza Khalaji, PhD| Department of English, Malayer Branch, Islamic Azad University, Malayer, Iran.
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