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Willingness to Communicate and Action Control
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MacIntyre, Peter D.; Doucette, Jesslyn – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2010
Being willing to communicate is part of becoming fluent in a second language, which often is the ultimate goal of L2 learners. Julius Kuhl's theory of action control is introduced as an expansion of the conceptual framework for the study of Willingness to Communicate. Kuhl proposed three key concepts, preoccupation, volatility, and hesitation,…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Path Analysis, Self Efficacy, Models