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Syed, Hassan; Memon, Shumaila; Chachar, Zulfiqar Ali; Zameer, Sharique; Shah, Tanweer – Research in Education, 2022
Willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC) is a speaker's voluntary engagement in communication using a target language. WTC has undergone several conceptualisations over the past twenty years or so. The aim of the current article is to present a narrative review of the major conceptual developments in research on L2 WTC. First, the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, Communication (Thought Transfer)
McKay, Sandra Lee – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
This text introduces teachers to research methods they can use to examine their own classrooms in order to become more effective teachers. Becoming familiar with classroom-based research methods not only enables teachers to do research in their own classrooms, it also provides a basis for assessing the findings of existing research. McKay…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Language Teachers, Teacher Researchers
Loughrin-Sacco, Steven J.; And Others – 1989
The procedures used in an ethnographic study of a classroom language learning community are described. The research was undertaken to gain insights into adult language learning taking place among students who were not foreign language majors in an elementary French class at Michigan Technological University during the 1986-87 academic year. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Cross Sectional Studies