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Direct linkMariusz Kruk – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
The present chapter offers an overview of empirical investigations into the phenomena of WTC, motivation, language anxiety and boredom with a particular focus on changes in their levels over longer and shorter periods of time as well as factors influencing such fluctuations in traditional and digital contexts. [For the complete volume,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Interpersonal Communication, Student Motivation
Mariusz Kruk – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
A number of variables have an influence on language learners' success in the learning of a foreign/second language. Some variables, such as motivation, language anxiety or willingness to communicate (WTC), have been researched extensively in the field of second language acquisition, while others, such as boredom, still remain among "the most…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Learner Engagement
Mariusz Kruk – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This book focuses on the dynamic relationships among individual difference (ID) variables (i.e., willingness to communicate, motivation, language anxiety and boredom) in learning English as a foreign language in the virtual world Second Life. The theoretical part provides an overview of selected issues related to the four ID factors in question…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Electronic Learning, Computer Simulation
Mariusz Kruk – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This chapter discusses issues concerning the design and implementation of the research project dealing with the changes in the levels of willingness to communicate, motivation, boredom and language anxiety, their relationships and factors influencing them in the course of the participants' visits to the virtual world Second Life. [For the complete…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Individual Differences, Computer Simulation
Artur Skweres – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This collected book analyzes the phenomenon of crisis manifested across various historical periods. It offers unique, multifaceted, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the issues of crises and finds numerous applications in the fields of literature, linguistics, advertising, photography, and foreign language teaching. The collection is divided…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Nourollah Zarrinabadi, Editor; Miroslaw Pawlak, Editor – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This edited collection provides a state-of-the art overview of research on willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second and foreign language. In particular, it includes innovative studies seeking to demonstrate the ways in which WTC can be examined within the framework of complex dynamic systems, how the construct is related to self-assessment,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes, Immigrants, Second Language Learning
