著者

野畑 理佳 Rika NOHATA

雑誌

武庫川女子大学紀要 (ISSN:24354848)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.68, pp.11-19, 2021-03-12

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The purpose of this article is to report how affective factors including anxiety, self-confidence, risk-taking and inhibition change and how Willingness to Communicate in Japanese outside the classroom is affected by those factors while studying in Japan. The data was collected by interview and questionnaires to two advanced learners and analyzed by qualitative data analysis method. The results show that opportunities to perceive language competence, experiences of communication, features and participants of communication, and learnersʼ beliefs affect Willingness to Communicate. Successful communication enhance self-confidence and decrease language-use anxiety. Self-confidence influences Willingness to Communicate with significant others in the target language society. Experiences of failures in communication causes language use anxiety and decrease Willingness to Communicate with others. Conditions of communication also impacts their willingness to communicate, especially with significant others in the target community. The implication of the findings suggests Willingness to Communicate is concerned with the desire to establish a relationship with others as a member of the target community.