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David Wood , Shahin Nematizadeh. 2019. Willingness to Communicate and Second Language Speech Fluency: An Investigation of Affective and Cognitive Dynamics. The Canadian Modern Language Review 75 (3) : 197–215. 19 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Abstract

The paper takes the perspective of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory to examine the dynamics – affective and cognitive – of L2 learners’ willingness to communicate. It offers a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the dynamics of the willingness to communicate, as well as of its interaction with measures of speech fluency. It finds that there is a largely bi-directional interaction between the willingness to communicate and fluency in L2.