Publications

Publication details [#50119]

Freiermuth, Mark. 2006. Willingness to communicate: can online chat help? International Journal of Applied Linguistics 16 (2) : 189–212.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language teaching | internet | second language acquisition | task-dependency of processing | university

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study demonstrates that online chatting offers a comfortable environment that increases female Japanese university students' willingness to communicate in English when soving tasks.