Facilitating Interaction in East Asian EFL Classrooms: Increasing Students’ Willingness to Communicate

Abstract

Research has pointed to specific classroom conditions that increase EFL students' willingness to communicate in English (WTC); these include group cohesiveness, topic relevancy, and anxiety. Additionally, certain language-learning attitudes, such as international posture and student acceptance of communicative language teaching (CLT), have been shown to affect a student's WTC. This paper will explain how, by paying close consideration to these variables, teachers in East Asian classrooms can promote their students' WTC and improve spoken interaction among their students.