This study investigated the effects of teachers’ immediacy, self-disclosure, and technology policy on developing students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in an Iranian EFL classroom context. The sample included 220 EFL learners in a private language institute in Isfahan, Iran. Four questionnaires were administered to assess the participants’ WTC as well as their teacher’s immediacy, self-disclosure, and technology policy. The collected data were then analyzed through structural equation modeling (SEM). The results of SEM showed that teacher immediacy, self-disclosure, and technology policy positively predict students’ WTC. This study has some pedagogical implications for teaching English to EFL learners.
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Amirian, Z., Rezazadeh, M., & Rahimi-Dashti, M. (2021). Teachers’ immediacy, self-disclosure, and technology policy as predictors of willingness to communicate: A structural equational modeling analysis. In Second Language Learning and Teaching (pp. 219–234). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67634-6_11
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