The Effects Of Communication Strategies On Intermediate Iranian Efl Learners' Willingness To Communicate

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dc.contributor.authorSamian, Hosein Vafadar
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-15T07:21:08Z
dc.date.available2019-01-15T07:21:08Z
dc.date.issued2018-02
dc.description.abstractIt is too frequently observed that students in EFL classes although motivated to learn a language remain silent and do not initiate or engage in communication when they are free to do so. Due to the importance of communication and language use in language acquisition in the past decade, willingness to communicate (WTC) as the construct to call such ambivalence to account is considered an essential concept in language learning and teaching. Adopting mixed methods design, the present quasiexperimental study investigated the differential effects of communication strategies (CSs) on Intermediate Iranian EFL students' WTC based on participants’ amount of speaking time on allocated discussion topics and number of speaking turns while minimizing the teachers’ immediacy behaviors effects. Through a purposive sampling from a pool of 245 intermediate EFL learners, 67 males and females with nearly equal number of mixed high-willing, mid-willing, and low-willing to communicate participants were randomly placed in the experimental (n = 36) and control group (n = 31). Both groups attended two preparatory sessions, two discussion sessions as the pretest, and two discussion sessions as the posttest and all sessions were audio/video recorded and observed. During five treatment sessions, the experimental group received the explicit instruction of CSs adopted from Dörnyei and Scott’s (1995a, 1995b, as cited in Dörnyei & Scott, 1997) Inventory of Strategic Language Devices. At the end, the stimulated-recall interviews were conducted in order to elicit data from the participants in the experimental group. The control group, however, received no treatment instead they followed their regular EFL curriculum. The results of quantitative and qualitative analyses revealed that the amount of participants’ speaking time or WTC and taking turns in speaking for the experimental group were significantly higher than the control group.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7575
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversiti Sains Malaysiaen_US
dc.subjectThe effects of communication strategiesen_US
dc.subjecton intermediate iranian EFL learnersen_US
dc.titleThe Effects Of Communication Strategies On Intermediate Iranian Efl Learners' Willingness To Communicateen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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