Increasing Students’ Willingness to Communicate: Drama-Based Approaches to Language Instruction in English for Academic Purposes Classes
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willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support
why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...
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عنوان ژورنال: TESL Canada Journal
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1925-8917,0826-435X
DOI: 10.18806/tesl.v37i3.1346