• Zahra Jamaleddin

  Author

• Anita Lashkarian

  Author

This study was going to delve into significant difference between English foreign language
and English for specific purpose learners' desires to take part in discourse activities, their willingness to
communicate. It also tried to investigate if there was any difference between male and female
undergraduate learners of these two groups in term of their willingness to communicate. To these aims,
54 English for specific purpose learners ( 25 females and 29 males) studying in computer engineering at
Shiraz Engineering University, Iran, and 61 English foreign language learners (34 females and 27
males) studying in English literature at Shiraz Humanities University were selected randomly during the
academic year of 2014-2015. They filled out willingness to communicate questionnaire developed by
MacIntyre et al. (2001) .Applying an independent t-test indicated that there was no significant difference
between English foreign language and English for specific purpose learners in term of their willingness
to communicate. Another independent t-test revealed that there was no significant difference between
male and female undergraduate learners of the two groups.

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