Measuring Communicative Intentions and Capabilities: Learners’ English Proficiency as a Supplement to Willingness to Communicate

• 영문명: Measuring Communicative Intentions and Capabilities: Learners’ English Proficiency as a Supplement to Willingness to Communicate
• 발행기관: 한국영어평가학회
• 저자명: Hansol Lee Seonghan Jin
• 간행물 정보: 『English Language Assessment』Vol.18 No.1, 97~117쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.06.30

영문 초록

In this study, we attempted to measure English learners’ communicative intentions and capabilities (CIC) by adding their English proficiency to their willingness to communicate (WTC) as a predictor of the learners’ English use. In the context of communicative language teaching (CLT), learners’ WTC is considered the key to linking important learner factors such as self-perceived competence, anxiety, and motivation. Given that WTC only accounts for learners’ communicative intentions, we hypothesized that learners’ communicative capabilities (i.e., language proficiency) would be a meaningful addition to measuring overall CIC. To test this hypothesis, we collected a total of 67 samples (N = 17,811) and conducted an analysis using a metaanalytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) approach. The results indicated that the learners’ overall CIC successfully predicted their English use, with a significant path coefficient (β = .525, p = .02). Furthermore, we found that the size of the direct contributions of perceived competence and motivation became non-significantly marginal (ps > .05), indicating that adding learners’ proficiency to the WTC to measure the overall CIC can improve the overall explanatory power of the MASEM model to predict learners’ English use.

목차

I. INTRODUCTION

II. RESEARCH METHOD

III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

IV. CONCLUSION

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키워드

communicative intentions and capabilities willingness to communicate English proficiency English use meta-analytic structural equation modeling