Towards an ecological understanding of willingness to communicate in EFL classrooms in China

This article reports on a multiple-case study designed to investigate factors influencing willingness to communicate (WTC) in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom in China. Four university students participated in this study; data were collected through semi-structured interviews, learning journals recorded by the students, and classroom observations over seven months. The data were qualitatively content analyzed. Utilizing...