Effect of Implicit Self-Esteem on Willingness to Communicate in Second Language
- DOI
- 10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_142How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- L2 WTC; Implicit self-esteem; Chinese senior high school students; Name Letter Test
- Abstract
Students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) using second language (L2) plays an undeniably influential role in English education context. An accumulation of research has been conducted exploring L2 WTC and its influencing variables. However, whether implicit self-esteem has an impact on L2 WTC changing remains under-answered. The present study aims to find the association between implicit self-esteem and L2 WTC among Chinese senior high school students. A total of 255 senior high school sophomores who are studying in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, China, will be recruited to take part in the study. Name Letter Test will be conducted to test participants’ implicit self-esteem while a questionnaire involving various classroom situations will be used for measuring L2 WTC level. After calculating the collected data in Pearson’s correlation, it is predicted that there is a positive correlation between implicit self-esteem and L2 WTC. The study would provide pedagogical implication that English teachers should pay more attention to students’ self-esteem in class. Teaching methods that protect students’ self-esteem while enhancing L2 WTC should be encouraged.
- Copyright
- © 2022 The Author(s)
- Open Access
- Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Wanzheng Zhu PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/30 TI - Effect of Implicit Self-Esteem on Willingness to Communicate in Second Language BT - Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1237 EP - 1244 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_142 DO - 10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_142 ID - Zhu2022 ER -