Bilingual/Multilingual Learners' Willingness to Communicate in and Anxiety on Speaking Chinese and Their Associations with Self-Rated Proficiency in Chinese

Autor/in	Liu, Meihua
Titel	Bilingual/Multilingual Learners' Willingness to Communicate in and Anxiety on Speaking Chinese and Their Associations with Self-Rated Proficiency in Chinese
Quelle	In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 21 (2018) 1, S.54-69 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-0050
DOI	10.1080/13670050.2015.1127889
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Multilingualism; Chinese; Second Language Instruction; Language Proficiency; Anxiety; Questionnaires; College Students; Foreign Countries; Interpersonal Communication; Student Attitudes; Communication (Thought Transfer); Measures (Individuals); Second Language Learning; Likert Scales; Semi Structured Interviews; Factor Analysis; China (Beijing); Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; China; Chinesen; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Angst; Fragebogen; Collegestudent; Ausland; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Schülerverhalten; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Messdaten; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Likert-Skala; Faktorenanalyse
Abstract	The present research explored bilingual/multilingual students' willingness to communicate in Chinese (WTCC) and foreign language anxiety (FLA) when speaking Chinese and their associations with self-rated proficiency in Chinese in a university in Beijing. The study recruited 167 bilingual and multilingual learners of Chinese to fill in a battery of questionnaires, 15 of whom were interviewed. Analyses of the data revealed the following major findings: (1) most participants were willing to communicate in Chinese and did not feel anxious when doing so, (2) both WTCC and FLA were closely related to self-rated proficiency in Chinese and powerful predictors for the latter, and vice versa, (3) WTCC and FLA were significantly related to and predicted each other and (4) a number of factors were identified to be causes for the learners' WTCC and FLA. Evidently, both willingness to communicate and FLA are complicated constructs and issues of great concern even to experienced language learners, which deserve continuous research. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01