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Factors Affecting L2 Willingness to Communicate in Adolescent EFL learners 40618104 豊田, 順子 トヨダ, ジュンコ Toyoda, Junko 関西外国語大学短期大学部 Kansai Gaidai College open access L2 WTC adolescent EFL learners perceived communicative competence 論文 ARTICLE Around the world, many studies have investigated Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in language learning. However, few studies have explored adolescent EFL learners’ WTC. This study attempted to investigate what factors affect L2 WTC of 135 Japanese junior high school students through regression analyses of quantitative data. A questionnaire was administered to measure their L2 WTC, communication variables (e.g., task attitudes, L2 motivation) and sociodynamics in L2. Also, the results of English proficiency tests were used to measure their L2 competence. The findings revealed that three enduring communication variables―perceived L2 communicative competence, L1 WTC, and L2 anxiety—predict the participants’ L2 WTC, confirming the previous research results. This suggests how well learners perceive they can communicate in an L2 without feeling anxious is vital in sustaining learners’ L2 WTC. Also, L1WTC, a personality-based predisposition, was found to play an important role in L2 learners’ volitional choice to initiate communication, 関西外国語大学・関西外国語大学短期大学部 Kansai Gaidai University 2022-03 eng departmental bulletin paper VoR https://doi.org/10.18956/00008044 https://kansaigaidai.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/8081 10.18956/00008044 AN00046756 0388-1067 研究論集 Journal of Inquiry and Research 115 1 12 https://kansaigaidai.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/8081/files/r115_01.pdf application/pdf 480.8 kB 2022-09-26