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Willingness to Communicate

The Effect of Conference Participation on Students’ L2 Apprehension

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In a global society, English has become the international lingua franca and is regarded as a necessary language for being a member of the international community (Jenkins, 2007). Even in such a milieu, the high degree of communication apprehension has generated a lower level of willingness to communicate and consequently has impeded communicative competence among Japanese learners of English (Matsuoka, 2009).

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  1. National College of Nursing, Japan

    Rieko Matsuoka

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  1. Temple University Japan Campus, Tokyo, Japan

    Sachiko Horiguchi

  2. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yuki Imoto

  3. Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

    Gregory S. Poole

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Matsuoka, R. (2015). Willingness to Communicate. In: Horiguchi, S., Imoto, Y., Poole, G.S. (eds) Foreign Language Education in Japan. Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (Pelt). SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-325-4_9

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