Exploring Factors Influencing Willingness to Communicate in a Chinese Ethnic Minority College

Lv li(Sichuan Minzu University)

Abstract

This study adopts a quantitative method to examine whether motivation, self-perceived communication competence and speaking anxiety can predict learners’ willingness to communicate in a Chinese ethic minority EFL class. 190 students participated in the study.The findings reveal that the combination of three independent variables, motivation, self-perceived communication competence and speaking anxiety can predict students WTC inside the classroom, with motivation (r=0.302) as the moderate influencing variable and speaking anxiety (r=0.569)significantly predicting WTC.Different from the prior studies, self-perceived communication competence contributes little to the regression equation. Future study can explore other variables affecting willingness to communicate in the Chinese ethnic minority college.

Keywords

Willingness to Communicate, motivation, self-perceived communication competence, speaking anxiety, multiple linear regression

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12345/jetm.v10i1.36510