IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/sek/iacpro/7009820.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Relationship among Turkish EFL Learners? Perceived Communication Competence, Willingness to Communicate and Speaking Proficiency

Author

Listed:
  • Leyla Karakurt

    (Baskent University)

Abstract

This study aims to explore the relationship among Turkish EFL Learners? communicative competence, willingness to communicate (WTC), and their speaking proficiency in a Turkish EFL context. 213 students who are majoring in the School of Foreign Languages, English Language Department at a foundation university in Ankara during the academic year of 2015-2016 Spring Semester participated in the study. The students are monolingual and their ages range from 17 to 24. The participants completed 5-point likert-type questionnaires on Turkish-language version of the Perceived Communication Competence Test by Yashima (2002), MacIntyre & Charos (1996) and WTC Test by McCroskey (1992). These tests were used for measuring students? perceived communication competence and willingness to communicate in Turkish EFL context, which will later be compared with their speaking proficiency. The data obtained from the study will be analyzed and interpreted and relying on these findings some recommendations will be made for foreign language teachers.

Suggested Citation

  • Leyla Karakurt, 2018. "The Relationship among Turkish EFL Learners? Perceived Communication Competence, Willingness to Communicate and Speaking Proficiency," Proceedings of International Academic Conferences 7009820, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:sek:iacpro:7009820
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://iises.net/proceedings/42nd-international-academic-conference-rome/table-of-content/detail?cid=70&iid=028&rid=9820
    File Function: First version, 2018
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Willingness to communicate; perceived communication competence; speaking proficiency; Turkish EFL context.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
    • C89 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Other

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sek:iacpro:7009820. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Klara Cermakova (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://iises.net/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.