Publications

Publication details [#33074]

Clément, Richard and W.P. Wen. 2003. A Chinese Conceptualisation of Willingness to Communicate in ESL. Language, Culture and Curriculum 16 (1) : 18–38.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | communication | conceptualization | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

This paper tries to extend MacIntyre et al.'s (1998) heuristic model of willingness to communicate, based on a Western perspective, so as to reflect more closely the Chinese conceptualization of willingness to communicate in English language Chinese classrooms.