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Publication details [#57773]

Gallagher, H. Colin. 2013. Willingness to Communicate and Cross-cultural Adaptation: L2 Communication and Acculturative Stress as Transaction. Applied Linguistics 34 (1) : 53–73.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | adaptation | L2-acquisition | motivation | university

Language as a subject

Chinese | English, British

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Drawing on case study data from 104 Chinese-speaking students attending a British university, the findings sustain the suitability of locating willingness to communicate in the L2 (L2 WTC) within a common transactional framework of cross-cultural adaptation.