Students' willingness to communicate in EFL context

Abstract EN

Willingness to communicate is a recently emerged concept in applied linguistics which is believed to interrelate with many other important concepts like motivation, anxiety, self-perceived communicative competence, self-confidence, international posture, and language proficiency.

It is such an individual variable which help the language learners acquire better communicative skills in using a foreign language.

Therefore, willingness to communicate is regarded as an important variable that facilitates the process of foreign language learning in such a way that predicts the flow of language communication.

As such, it influences how frequently the learners actively engage in foreign language communication.