Essays about: "willingness to speak"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words willingness to speak.

1. 1. Willingness to Communicate and the Ideal L2 Self Inside and Outside the EFL Classroom. A Literature Review

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Lärarutbildningsnämnden

   Author : Ida Granlund; Alice Lyttkens; [2023-11-14]
   Keywords : Willingness to Communicate; L2MSS; Ideal L2 self; Extramural English; integrativeness; EFL; L2 Learning Experience; Target Language;

   Abstract : This literature review investigates why EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students are reluctant to speak the target language in the classroom. As this is a complex question with complex answers, this review focuses on how the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS), specifically the ideal L2 self, affects willingness to communicate (WTC). READ MORE

3. 2. "I'm not forcing anyone" : A Study on Motivation and Willingness to Communicate in English in a Swedish Upper-Secondary School Context

   University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Ylva Craig; [2023]
   Keywords : English as a second language; second language learning; willingness to communicate; motivation; integrativeness; upper-secondary school; Sweden; ARCS model;

   Abstract : This study aims to expand on the existing knowledge of Swedish upper-secondary students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in English and provide insight into how motivational strategies are used in some Swedish English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classrooms by the teachers. To gather data, four teachers were interviewed, and three of them observed in class, and 67 students answered a questionnaire. READ MORE

4. 3. Thinking with Ai Stratis : Becoming-Tourist, Becoming-Researcher in a More-Than-Human-World

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Byggteknik och byggd miljö

   Author : Paulina Raduchowska; [2022]
   Keywords : Ai Stratis; Agios Efstratios; island; tourism; research; becoming; affect; posthuman; multispecies; landscape; Deleuze; ethics of care; more-than-human; sustainability; futurity; assemblage; environmental humanities; ontological turn; guest; host;

   Abstract : This study discusses the difference between thinking with and about the island of Ai Stratis for knowledge production, advocating for situated research and embodied experience. Having conducted an ethnographic study, on the island of Ai Stratis in the North Aegean region of Greece in the summer of 2021, I look out from the island, assuming a tree-fold research field, including the physical island of Ai Stratis, a plane of reflexivity, as well as a literary plane. READ MORE

5. 4. Remote Teaching in the Communicative Classroom : How Remote Teaching has Affected Swedish EFL Learners’ Willingness to Speak English during Communicative Classroom Activities

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Johanna Björkman; Elina Reinholdsson; [2021]
   Keywords : willingness to speak; English as a foreign language learners; communicative classroom activities; remote teaching; face-to-face teaching; Swedish upper-secondary school;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to investigate how the transition into remote education in Swedish upper-secondary schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the implementation of communicative tasks during lessons in English as a foreign language, and its consequences on students’ willingness to speak. For this purpose, the following three research questions were posed: 1. READ MORE

6. 5. Degree Project with Specialization in English Studies and Education : Teaching Strategies to Overcome EFL Pupils` Speaking Anxiety

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

   Author : Sanaa Haji; Sara Jejo; [2021]
   Keywords : speaking skills; classroom environment; teaching strategies; language acquisition; EFL; fear of speaking; foreign language anxiety; collaborative learning; and willingness to speak;

   Abstract : Gibbons (2015) writes that speaking is considered as the most important skill in language learning. However, Lundahl (2014) states that there are some pupils, in year 4-6, in Sweden who do not speak during the English lessons. Thus, the aim of this study is to find out what the reasons behind EFL pupils' unwillingness to speak English are. READ MORE