The Importance Of Willingness In L2 Communication

Currently instructed second language learning, there is a noteworthy emphasis on the development of learner’s communicative competence. And individual differences have been categorized in SLA. The topic of the articles, willingness to communicate is one of the components in taxonomy of Ellis (2008). In order to advance our understanding of the conditions and factors for changes in leaners’ willingness to communicate, to figure out how situational willingness to communicate in a L2 can emerge and fluctuate in conversation and to examine relations L2 learning and L2 communication variables using willingness to communicate model, the articles study and examine with the topic.

Willingness to communicate which is new to individual differences research in SLA is connected with motivation. It is originally investigated in L1 Communication research, willingness to communicate pertains to the predisposition towards talkativeness that learners produce in the classroom and also potentially outside the classroom. As such it is the behavioral intent that can cause actual communicative behavior (MacIntyre, Clement, Dornei, & Noels, 1998). According to MacIntyre, Burns, and Jessome (2011), willingness to communicate approaches multiple dimensions for learner’s experiences.

Like this, willingness to communicate can be high occasionally or low at others (MaccIntyre et al., 2011).

Willingness to communicate is seen as particularly important considering the current focus on interaction in the classroom since it is a predictor of frequency of communication.