Willingness to Communicate and Second Language Fluency: Korean-Speaking Short-Term Sojourners in Australia

The current mixed-method study investigated two groups of Korean-speaking short-term sojourners in Australia. One group (students) was composed learners enrolled English training programs, whereas the other (workers) workplace. We administered questionnaires and a semi-structured interview to examine their willingness communicate (WTC) as second language (L2) explored relationship between this variable sojourners’ amount L2 contact oral fluency English. Our quantitative analyses show that student showed higher level WTC exposure than worker group. For both groups, significantly predicted exposure. However, found neither be associated with nor Qualitative theme-based analysis suggests sojourn demonstrated similarities differences attitudes motivations related unwillingness (unWTC). students stronger tendency engage interaction workers, aligning frequency reported workers’ were characterized by feelings ambivalence, co-existence unWTC.