A Comparison of the Turkish and Romanian Students' Willingness to Communicate and Its Affecting Factors in English

Autor/inn/en	Asmali, Mehmet; Bilki, Ufuk; Duban, Carina Adriana
Titel	A Comparison of the Turkish and Romanian Students' Willingness to Communicate and Its Affecting Factors in English
Quelle	In: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 11 (2015) 1, S.59-74 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1305-578X
Schlagwörter	Comparative Analysis; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Anxiety; Communication (Thought Transfer); Foreign Countries; Correlation; Qualitative Research; Self Concept; Student Attitudes; Communicative Competence (Languages); Second Language Instruction; Nonparametric Statistics; Statistical Analysis; Romania; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Angst; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Ausland; Korrelation; Qualitative Forschung; Selbstkonzept; Schülerverhalten; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Statistische Analyse; Rumänien; Türkei
Abstract	The present study attempts to offer a small-scale investigation of the willingness to communicate and its key antecedents, namely the self-perceived communication competence and the communication apprehension in Turkish and Romanian contexts. A total of 130 participants took part in this quantitative approach based study. The data suggested significant differences between the Romanian and Turkish participants, in that the former are more willing to communicate and more competent in using the English language compared to the Turkish participants. However, both groups had almost equal levels of communication apprehension. In terms of the relationships among the constructs, while strong positive correlations were found between the willingness to communicate and the self-perceived communication competence, negative relationships were found between the communication apprehension and willingness to communicate for both groups. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. Hacettepe Universitesi, Egitim Fakultesi B Blok, Yabanci Diller Egitimi Bolumu, Ingiliz Dili Egitimi Anabilim Dali, Ankara 06800, Turkey. e-mail: jllsturkey@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.jlls.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01