“…The models of WTC were developed through a hierarchy of antecedents starting with personality traits and moved towards more communicationrelated variables, like communication apprehension and perceived competence. The variables contributing to WTC were classified into four main contexts: cultural context, social and psychological context, classroom context and social and individual context (McCroskey and Baer, 1985, Pattapong, 2015,Robson, 2015, Altiner ,2018,Van Le, Cunningham & Watson, 2018,Mohammadi & Mahdivand, 2019,Khajavy, Makiabadi & Navokhi, 2019, Mohammadi, Barati & Youhanaee, 2019. -120 -With increasing emphasis on authentic communication as an essential part of learning and instruction, WTC has also been proposed as one of the key concepts in learning and instruction.…”