The Relationship Between Willingness to Communicate and English Language Proficiency
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200804.021How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Willingness to Communicate (WTC), English Language Proficiency
- Abstract
One of the effective aspects assumed in influencing student success in foreign language learning is the Willingness to Communicate (WTC). This correlational study was intended to explore any possible relationship between students’ willingness to communicate and English Language Proficiency. The participants of this study were 23 Graduate students majoring in English Language Education at Yogyakarta State University. The instrument was a questionnaire of Willingness to Communicate in a Foreign Language Scale (WTC-FLS) developed and also validated by Baghaei (2012). It consisted of 20 items with a five-point Likert scale. The validity of the questionnaire was acceptable, while the reliability was 0.899. Moreover, the study used the score of students’ ProTEFL (Proficiency Test of English as a Foreign Language) as a measure of their English Language Proficiency. For data analysis, it employed A Person Product-moment Correlation analysis. The analysis result revealed that there was no correlation between Willingness to Communicate and English language proficiency. It showed that students who had a high score of English language Proficiency did not always have the willingness to communicate in English or vice versa.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Fithrotul Khoiriyah AU - Dyah Setyowati Ciptaningrum PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/05 TI - The Relationship Between Willingness to Communicate and English Language Proficiency BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language, Literature, and Arts Education (ICLLAE 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 112 EP - 117 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200804.021 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200804.021 ID - Khoiriyah2020 ER -