The Willingness To Communicate Factors Of An Indonesian Lecturer

Abstract

Despite the growing number of researches of Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in the English of the students, research of teachers’ WTC in English is still scarce. At the same time, the factors influence WTC in English in authentic classroom interactions are still under research. This study aims to observe the factors influences WTC in the English language of lecturer in the context of Indonesia. The data were collected through audio and video recordings during an online classroom learning session where the participant was teaching her students. The data were then transcribed, coded, and analysed thematically by drawing from the Heuristic Model (MacIntyre et al., 1998). From the results of the analysis, the factors influenced teacher's WTC found when teaching are divided including: (1) responsibility, (2) giving instruction, (3) giving clarification, (4) excitement/talk about something familiar, and (5) giving appreciation (6) opportunity, (7) disappointment and lack of response, (8) explain instruction, and (9) society way of life. From the data interpretation, the factors influenced the WTC in English based on the Heuristic Model found five layers from six layers of the model. The implication of this study is to know factors that influenced WTC in English.