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Competence and performance (Linguistics) --- Needs assessment. --- Language and languages. --- Second language acquisition. --- United States. --- Rules and practice.

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This book offers a comprehensive account of individual differences variables as well as contextual factors that impinge on second language learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC). Firstly, it adopts a macro-perspective on WTC, which entails an attempt to identify variables that are related to WTC, taking into account the specificity of the Polish higher education setting. Secondly, it embraces a micro-perspective on WTC, striving to pinpoint the individual and contextual influences on levels of WTC in the course of regularly-scheduled, naturally-occurring English classes, as well as to capture the dynamic nature of WTC during such classes. Together, these perspectives bring the reader closer to understanding the mechanisms underlying WTC in specific contexts, thereby providing a basis for recommendations for classroom practice that could translate into learners’ success. It will be of interest to second language acquisition researchers and students, as well as to methodologists and materials writers who can use the research findings to improve the practice of teaching and learning speaking in the language classroom.

800.7 --- Language and languages --- Communicative competence --- Intercultural communication --- Second language acquisition --- Language and culture --- Culture --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Competence, Communicative --- Competence and performance (Linguistics) --- Psycholinguistics --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Study and teaching --- Language and education --- Language schools --- 800.7 Taalonderwijs. Taalverwerving --- Taalonderwijs. Taalverwerving --- Anthropological aspects --- Language and culture. --- Second language acquisition. --- Study and teaching. --- EFL. --- L2. --- SLA. --- WTC. --- Willingness to communicate. --- communicative behaviour. --- foreign language acquisition. --- individual differences. --- individual learner differences. --- instructed second language acquisition. --- motivation. --- second language acquisition. --- teaching and learning speaking.