期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2014
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：1
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Willingness to communicate as the most immediate predictor of language useis claimed to be influenced by both individual and contextual variables. Given this, thisstudy addresses the effect of single-sex and mixed-sex context on EFL students' insidethe classroom and outside the classroom willingness to communicate (WTC). Toconduct the study, WTC questionnaires were issued among three hundred students inprivate English language institutes; one hundred of whom (both males and females)were studying in the mixed-sex context, one hundred females, and one hundred malesstudying in a single-sex context. A 2 × 2 ANOVA was conducted to examine the effectsof context and gender on the students' WTC. The results indicated that a) studentsstudying in single-sex contexts enjoy higher amount of WTC both inside and outside theclassroom b) males are more willing to communicate than females. Other findings andpedagogical implications of the study are discussed.
关键词：Willingness to communicate; single-sex context; mixed-sex context; gender
