A Study of English Major Students' Willingness to Communicate in English Classroom

Based on the heuristic model of variables influencing WTC(Willingness to Communicate),both quantitative and qualitative approaches employed in this empirical study to investigate 345 English major freshmen and sophomores' willingness to communicate in English in the classroom.The results are summarized as follow: first,English major students' willingness to communicate in the classroom is high;second,gender difference and grade difference,that is,females have significantly higher motivation to speak English in the classroom than males,but no significant difference between English major freshmen and sophomores;third,psychological factors are the most important ones to influence their self-perceived English proficiency and confidence.