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Publication details [#55172]

MacIntyre, P.D. and James Jason Legatto. 2011. A Dynamic System Approach to Willingness to Communicate: Developing an Idiodynamic Method to Capture Rapidly Changing Affect. Applied Linguistics 32 (2) : 149–171.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

affect | attitude | communicative dynamism | L2-acquisition

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

As willingness to communicate can be conceptualized as a dynamic system, allowing both WTC consistency and variation (even) among a relatively homogeneous sample of speakers, current methodology limitations and future research directions are discussed.