Table Of ContentSecond Language Learning and Teaching
Nourollah Zarrinabadi
Mirosław Pawlak Editors
New Perspectives
on Willingness
to Communicate in
a Second Language
Second Language Learning and Teaching
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University,Kalisz,Poland
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Nourollah Zarrinabadi Mirosław Pawlak
Editors
New Perspectives
on Willingness
to Communicate in a Second
Language
Editors
NourollahZarrinabadi MirosławPawlak
DepartmentofEnglish FacultyofPedagogyandFineArts
UniversityofIsfahan AdamMickiewiczUniversity
Isfahan,Iran Kalisz,Poland
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SecondLanguageLearningandTeaching
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Contents
Introduction ...................................................... 1
NourollahZarrinabadiandMirosławPawlak
Second Language Willingness toCommunicate as a Complex
DynamicSystem ................................................... 7
ShahinNematizadehandDavidWood
CaseStudiesofIranianMigrants’WTCWithinanEcosystems
Framework:TheInfluenceofPastandPresentLanguageLearning
Experiences ....................................................... 25
DeniseCameron
Building Dialogue Between Cultures: Expats’ Way of Coping
inaForeign Country and Their Willingness toCommunicate
inaForeignLanguage ............................................. 55
GertrudTarp
TheMediatingEffectofCultureontheRelationshipBetweenFL
Self-assessmentandL2WillingnesstoCommunicate:ThePolish
andItalianEFLContext ........................................... 85
MałgorzataBaran-Łucarz
WhatDoesStudents’WillingnesstoCommunicateorReticence
SignifytoTeachers? ............................................... 119
NegahAllahyar
PositivePredictiveValueofExtraversioninDiagnosingL2WTC ...... 135
EwaPiechurska-Kuciel
On the Effect of Using a Flipped Classroom Methodology
onIranianEFLLearners’WillingnesstoCommunicate ............... 155
NourollahZarrinabadi,EnsiehKhodarahmi,andHadisShahbazi
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Examining the Dynamic Relationships Between Willingness
toCommunicate,AnxietyandEnjoymentUsingtheExperience
SamplingMethod ................................................. 169
GholamHassanKhajavy, PeterD.MacIntyre, TaherehTaherian,
andJessicaRoss
TheOpportunitytoCommunicate:ASocialNetworkApproach
toL2WTCandClassroom-BasedResearch .......................... 199
H.ColinGallagherandNourollahZarrinabadi
Teachers’ Immediacy, Self-disclosure, and Technology Policy
as Predictors of Willingness to Communicate: A Structural
EquationalModelingAnalysis ...................................... 219
ZahraAmirian,MohsenRezazadeh,andMaryamRahimi-Dashti
VocabularySizeasaPredictorofWillingnesstoCommunicate
InsidetheClassroom ............................................... 235
MeltemS¸enandHuseyinOz
Some Directions for Future Research on Willingness
toCommunicate ................................................... 261
NourollahZarrinabadi
Editors and Contributors
AbouttheEditors
NourollahZarrinabadi is a lecturer at the University of Isfahan, Iran. His areas
ofinterestincludepsychologyoflanguageandpsycholinguistics.Heisspecifically
interested in researching motivation, willingness to communicate, and language
mindsets. His articles have been published in various journals such as System,
TESOL Quarterly, Teacher and Teaching, RELC and Innovation in Language
LearningandTeaching.
MirosławPawlak is Professor of English in the English Department, Faculty of
Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland, and
Department of Language and Communication, Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences, State University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland. His main areas of
interest are form-focused instruction, corrective feedback, pronunciation teaching,
classroom interaction, learner autonomy, learning strategies, motivation,
willingness to communicate, boredom and study abroad. His most recent
publications include Error Correction in the Foreign Language Classroom.
Reconsidering the Issues (2015, Springer), Willingness to Communicate in
Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Combining a Macro- and
Micro-Perspective (with Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak, 2017, Multilingual
Matters), and Boredom in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Micro-Perspective
(with Joanna Zawodniak and Mariusz Kruk, 2020, Springer). He is Editor of the
journals Studies in Second language Learning and Teaching and Konin Language
Studies, as well as the book series Second Language Learning and Teaching,
publishedbySpringer.
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Contributors
NegahAllahyar UniversitiSainsMalaysia,Penang,Malaysia
ZahraAmirian UniversityofIsfahan,Isfahan,Iran
MałgorzataBaran-Łucarz UniversityofWrocław,Wrocław,Poland
DeniseCameron AucklandUniversityofTechnology,Auckland,NewZealand
H.ColinGallagher UniversityofMelbourne,Melbourne,Australia
GholamHassanKhajavy Department of Foreign Languages, University of
Bojnord,Bojnord,Iran
EnsiehKhodarahmi AllamehTabataba’IUniversity,Tehran,Iran
PeterD.MacIntyre DepartmentofPsychology,CapeBretonUniversity,Sydney,
NS,Canada
ShahinNematizadeh CarletonUniversity,Ottawa,Canada
HuseyinOz HacettepeUniversity,Ankara,Turkey
MirosławPawlak AdamMickiewiczUniversity,Kalisz,Poland
EwaPiechurska-Kuciel UniversityofOpole,Opole,Poland
MaryamRahimi-Dashti UniversityofIsfahan,Isfahan,Iran
MohsenRezazadeh UniversityofIsfahan,Isfahan,Iran
JessicaRoss DepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofWaterloo,Waterloo,Canada
MeltemS¸en HacettepeUniversity,Ankara,Turkey
HadisShahbazi UniversityofMazandaran,Sari,Iran
TaherehTaherian EnglishLanguageDepartment,YazdUniversity,Yazd,Iran
GertrudTarp Aarhus,Denmark
DavidWood CarletonUniversity,Ottawa,Canada
NourollahZarrinabadi UniversityofIsfahan,Isfahan,Iran
