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- Is groundbreaking in that it explores the changes in the constructs of willingness to communicate, motivation, language anxiety, and boredom in a virtual world, which still remains under-researched and insufficiently understood, with little empirical research being undertaken, particularly in the context of virtual environments
- Uncovers the relationships among willingness to communicate, motivation, language anxiety, and boredom as well as factors responsible for them in the virtual world Second Life
- Offers instructional options for increasing willingness to communicate and motivation and decreasing the experience of boredom and language anxiety in virtual environments
- Provides valuable guidelines for researchers interested in conducting similar research
Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland
Mariusz Kruk
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Investigating Dynamic Relationships Among Individual Difference Variables in Learning English as a Foreign Language in a Virtual World
Authors: Mariusz Kruk
Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65269-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65268-5Published: 20 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65271-5Published: 20 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65269-2Published: 19 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2193-7648
Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 148
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pedagogic Psychology, Language Education, Applied Linguistics