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Investigating Dynamic Relationships Among Individual Difference Variables in Learning English as a Foreign Language in a Virtual World

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Authors:
  1. Mariusz Kruk

    1. University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland

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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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Constructs of Willingness to Communicate, Motivation, Language Anxiety and Boredom: Overview of Selected Issues

    • Mariusz Kruk
    Pages 1-29

  3. Empirical Investigations into WTC, Motivation, Language Anxiety and Boredom in Traditional and Digital Contexts

    • Mariusz Kruk
    Pages 31-60

  4. Design of the Study

    • Mariusz Kruk
    Pages 61-73

  5. Findings of the Study

    • Mariusz Kruk
    Pages 75-121

  6. Conclusions, Pedagogical Implications and Directions for Future Research

    • Mariusz Kruk
    Pages 123-126

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 127-148
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This book focuses on the dynamic relationships among individual difference (ID) variables (i.e., willingness to communicate, motivation, language anxiety and boredom) in learning English as a foreign language in the virtual world Second Life. The theoretical part provides an overview of selected issues related to the four ID factors in question (e.g., definitions, models, sources, types, empirical investigations). The empirical part reports the findings of a research project which aimed to examine the changing nature of WTC, motivation, boredom and language anxiety experienced by six English majors during their visits to the said virtual world, the main contributors to the changes in the levels of the constructs under investigation, as well as their relationships. The book closes with the discussion of directions for further research as well as pedagogical implications.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland

    Mariusz Kruk

About the author

Mariusz Kruk, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland.

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

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