Willingness to Communicate in Relation to Language Use among Pakistani Undergraduates: A Sociocultural Perspective
This study aimed to investigate English as a second language (ESL) undergraduates’ sociocultural perspective of willingness to communicate (WTC) in English inside the classroom in relation to language use outside the classroom. The participants were 440 ESL undergraduates selected through the cl...
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Studies in English Language and Education (SiELE)
2022
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37767/1/sociocultural1.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37767/ http://jurnal.unsyiah.ac.id/SiELE/issue/view/1913 https://doi.org/10.24815/siele.v9i1.22315 |
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| Summary: | This study aimed to investigate English as a second language (ESL)
undergraduates’ sociocultural perspective of willingness to communicate
(WTC) in English inside the classroom in relation to language use outside
the classroom. The participants were 440 ESL undergraduates selected
through the cluster sampling method from eight universities in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan. The data were collected through
questionnaires on WTC in English inside the classroom and language use
outside the classroom. The findings revealed that the participants’ level of
WTC in English was high for most social interactions within the classroom,
such as in groups, during activities, with the same gender, and when given
preparation time in groups. The findings for language use showed that a
mixture of languages, such as Pashto and Urdu, was predominantly used
in the family, neighbourhood and friendship, religion, education, and
transaction domains. In contrast, English was primarily used in the mass
media and social media domains. Moreover, the findings revealed that
WTC in English inside the classroom was positively correlated with social
media, mass media, transaction and education domains but negatively
correlated with the family domain. |
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