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The Impact of Doing Problem-Solving Tasks on Willingness to Communicate, Self-perceived Communication Competence, and Communication Apprehension among Iranian EFL Learners
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In: Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 6, Iss 13, Pp 125-145 (2013) (2013)
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Willingness to communicate (WTC) plays a central role in learning a second/foreign language. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of doing problem-solving task on learners’ WTC in English. To fulfill the purpose of the study, 61 pre-intermediate learners were chosen by means of administrating a placement test. Learners were pretested through three scales of WTC and its two antecedents: self-perceived communication competence (SPCC) and communication apprehension (CA). Of course, the experimental group was provided with fifteen problem-solving tasks during the course, while the control group was not. After fifteen sessions of the treatment, two groups were posttested through the same three scales. The results demonstrated that the experimental group outperformed the control group in terms of their WTC’s level. Moreover, the learners’ WTC was found to be directly related to their SPCC and indirectly related to CA. So based on the MacIntyre’s path model (1994), these both antecedents can be the best predictors of WTC. The analysis of the data was done through multivariate analysis of variances (MANOVA) statistical programs.
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communication apprehension; Language and Literature; Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar; P; P101-410; problem-solving tasks; self-perceived communication competence; Willingness to Communicate
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URL: https://doaj.org/article/b53e34cb8c6a4da1bb719e9a608d4849
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Grammatical Competence Development of Nursery School Children Acquiring Persian
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In: Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 6, Iss 12, Pp 142-158 (2013) (2013)
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In Pursuit of Intercultural Communicative Competence in EFL Context: Exploring Iranian English Teachers’ Perceptions
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In: Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 6, Iss 13, Pp 65-83 (2013) (2013)
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TEACHING CHALLENGES IN INDONESIA: MOTIVATING STUDENTS AND TEACHERS’ CLASSROOM LANGUAGE
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In: Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2013) (2013)
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