Willingness To Communicate - Engendering WTC

Engendering WTC

There exist a variety of strategies to increase students' willingness to communicate in the classroom:

• Enable students' interest in foreign affairs and foreign cultures to grow.
• Remove students' anxiety and build their confidence in using the L2.
• Build on students' knowledge.
• Before students are asked to complete tasks in a large-group setting, have them perform the task in pairs.
• Use authentic materials in the classroom.
• Use a variety of activities and tasks.
• Ensure that the problems or tasks they are given are at a level of difficulty that they find not too easy and not too difficult.