Willingness to Communicate in Synchronous and Face-to-Face Conversation Modes: A Case Study

Amin Shahini

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Willingness to Communicate in Synchronous and Face-to-Face Conversation Modes: A Case Study

Amin Shahini

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 5)

Received: 12 July 2015 Accepted: 28 July 2015 Published: 11 August 2015

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Willingness to communicate (WTC) has recently received increasing attention across disciplines of second language acquisition and communication. Part of this attention has been directed towards contexts where this willingness might fundamentally increase—that is online setting. This paper is a case study of an Iranian university student who has been subject to investigation under two modes of synchronous chat and face to face conversation. These two environments have been investigated for grammatical accuracy in terms of correct use of noun pluralization, modifier-noun order, dropping of preposition, and subject-verb agreement. Results indicated that the learner was more willing to communicate in synchronous chat environment with fewer errors in the above mentioned areas rather than the face to face setting. Some pedagogical implications have also been suggested.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20150305.13
Page(s)	292-297
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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WTC, Synchronous Chat, Face to Face Conversation

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Amin Shahini. Willingness to Communicate in Synchronous and Face-to-Face Conversation Modes: A Case Study. Int J Lang Linguist. 2015;3(5):292-297. doi: 10.11648/j.ijll.20150305.13

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