%0 Journal Article
%T Exploring the ˇ°Situationˇ± of Situational Willingness to Communicate: A Volunteer Youth Exchange Perspective
%A Callie Mady
%A Stephanie Arnott
%J Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics (CJAL)
%D 2010
%I University of New Brunswick
%X This paper presents the perspectives of youth participating in the Society for Educational Visits and Exchanges in Canada's Volunteer Youth Experience (VYE) as gathered by way of pre- and post-program questionnaires, observations, interviews, and journals. The pan-Canadian questionnaire results suggest that this short, bilingual volunteer experience enhances participant motivation to learn a second official language and to be part of the target community. Triangulated findings from observations, interviews and journals indicate that participants' willingness to communicate (WTC) in the second language (MacIntyre, D rnyei, Cl¨¦ment, & Noels, 1998) may have been influenced by situational factors inherent to the volunteer experience such as access to native speakers of the target language and opportunities for authentic community participation.
%U http://ojs.vre.upei.ca/index.php/cjal/article/view/261