THE IMPACT OF WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE ON EFL LEARNER’S SPEAKING ABILITY: THE CASE OF SECOND YEAR LMD STUDENTS AT TLEMCEN UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The growing emphasis of modern language pedagogy on meaningful communication has generated new directions in the field of foreign language learning research. With the advent of communicative language teaching (CLT) approach, the communication aspect of teaching English has received more attention. As a consequence, MacIntyre, Clément, Dörnyei and Noels (1998) proposed the concept of language learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in the target language, which represents the psychological preparedness to use the second language effectively in communication. This concept has become progressively more essential across second language teaching and learning studies.