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Title: Neural Correlates of Task-Specific Willingness to Communicate: Expanding the Research Agenda
Language: English
Authors: Craig Lambert (ORCID 0000-0001-6017-1336)
Source: TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect. 2025 59(2):S150-S160.
Availability: Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 11
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Intention, Communication (Thought Transfer), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Recall (Psychology), Physiology, Measures (Individuals), Human Body, Nonverbal Communication, Neurology, Correlation
DOI: 10.1002/tesq.3395
ISSN: 0039-8322
1545-7249
Abstract: Learners' affective responses to pedagogic tasks and the effort that they invest in completing them are critical to the learning that takes place through tasks in task-based language teaching (TBLT) (Lambert, Aubrey, & Bui, 2023). Fluctuations in learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) during pedagogic tasks--or task-specific WTC (Aubrey & Yashima, 2023)--are a locus for affective and conative variation during pedagogic task performance. However, task-specific WTC is under-researched, and the research that has been conducted, while insightful, has been limited to self-report data (Khajavy, MacIntyre, Taherian, & Ross, 2021; MacIntyre & Legatto, 2011; MacIntyre & Wang, 2021). This brief report expands the research agenda on task-specific WTC by correlating self-report measures based on moment-to-moment ratings of stimulated recalls (MacIntyre & Ducker, 2022) with physiological measures of affect response and conation afforded by electroencephalography and facial expression analysis (Lambert, 2023). The report provides evidence for neural and physiological correlates of self-reported WTC experiences and points to directions for future research on WTC in TBLT.
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