Beyond willingness to speak Chinese: The case of transferring learning Chinese into communication among University of Ghana students
Beyond willingness to speak Chinese: The case of transferring learning Chinese into communication among University of Ghana students

Summary/Abstract: Willingness to communicate (WTC) has become an important role that facilitates language learning. The aim of this paper is to investigate WTC in Chinese as a foreign language of motivation to transfer learning through oral communication among students learning Chinese at the University of Ghana. Second language learner’s motivation to transfer learning is grounded on effort, desire, knowledge and skills learned in the classroom and beyond the classroom to achieve the goal of learning a language. By adopting a survey approach, quantitative data were administered for the study via questionnaires. One hundred participants from levels 200, 300 and 400 were involved in the study to ascertain the factors that influence student’s WTC in Chinese. According to the results, personality trait, environment and teaching practice, language skills, the complexity of the medium of translation, anxiety and self-confidence were factors that contributes to students’ WTC

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