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The Relationship Between Iranian EFL Learners’ International Posture and Willingness to Communicate Across High Versus Low English Proficiency Levels | ||
| Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances | ||
| مقاله 10، دوره 9، شماره 2 - شماره پیاپی 9، دی 2021، صفحه 151-170 اصل مقاله (632.21 K) | ||
| نوع مقاله: Research Article | ||
| شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22049/jalda.2021.27167.1278 | ||
| نویسندگان | ||
| Nadia Mahmoodi1؛ Nasser Ghafoori* 2؛ Seyed Reza Beh-Afarin* 3 | ||
| 1PhD Candidate in English Language Teaching, Sarab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sarab, Iran | ||
| 2Assistant Professor, English Department, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran | ||
| 3Assistant Professor, ELT Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran | ||
| چکیده | ||
| The study attempted to investigate the relationship between male Iranian EFL learners’ international posture (IP) and willingness to communicate (WTC) across two proficiency levels. The study was carried out with 106 participants from selected universities in Tabriz and Sarab, Northwest Iran, who were divided into two groups of high and low proficiency based on a Preliminary English Test (PET). The data were collected by the administration of WTC Scale (McCroskey & Richmond, 1990) and IP questionnaire (Yashima, 2000). The collected data were analyzed through Pearson correlation and independent samples t-test. The results showed that there was positive correlation between WTC and IP in the high-proficiency group while the correlation in the low proficiency-group was not statistically significant. It was also found that high proficiency learners had higher levels of both IP and WTC compared to their lower level counterparts. The findings of the study offer pedagogical implications for EFL learners, teachers, and syllabus designers. | ||
| کلیدواژهها | ||
| international posture؛ Iranian EFL learners’ proficiency level؛ willingness to communicate | ||
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