Overview
- Focuses on language learners and their communicative behavior inside and outside the classroom
- Presents various affective variables influencing communicative behavior
- Explores the concept of willingness to communicate in the European university context
- Covers broad implications for both theorists and practitioners
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)
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About this book
This book investigates and analyzes the way in which factors such as communication apprehension, self-perceived communicative competence and group dynamics influence the communicative behavior of a foreign-language learner. It also focuses on interpersonal communication, group communication and public speaking. Using selected models it characterizes and analyzes all types of communication with reference to communication in the language classroom, with a particular emphasis on the foreign-language context. The author also presents some conclusions and implications for both language teachers and language learners, as well as offering suggestions for further research in the field of classroom communication. The results of the study serve as a point of reference for teachers interested in the construct of willingness to communicate and other communication variables related to the issue of communication in a foreign language. The work also raises teachers' awareness of individual learnerdifferences in the context of communication in the foreign-language classroom.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dagmara GaĆajda received her Ph.D. degree in Linguistics from the University of Silesia, where she now works as an assistant professor. Apart from communication studies, her research interests focus on the teachersâ action zone in facilitating group dynamics, affect in language learning, individual learner differences in SLA/FLL and reflective teaching. Recent publications include âAnxiety and perceived communication competence as predictors of willingness to communicate in ESL/FL classroomâ in D. GabryĆ-Barker, J. Bielska (eds) (2013), The Affective Dimension in Second Language Acquisition; Clevedon; and âMultilingual Matters, Communication Apprehension and Self-perceived Communication Competence as Variables Underlying Willingness to Communicateâ in K. PiÄ tkowska, E. KoĆciaĆkowska-OkoĆska (eds) (2013) Correspondences and Contrasts in Foreign Language Pedagogy and Translation Studies, Berlin: Springer-Verlag. She has co-edited three volumes (two in 2016 and one in 2017) in the series Second Language Learning and Teaching published by Springer-Verlag.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communicative Behaviour of a Language Learner
Book Subtitle: Exploring Willingness to Communicate
Authors: Dagmara GaĆajda
Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59333-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59332-6Published: 26 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86600-0Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59333-3Published: 16 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2193-7648
Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 169
Topics: Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Communication Studies