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Grit and Second Language Learning Engagement: The Mediating Role of Affect Balance [PDF]

Behavioral Sciences
The study of the relationship between key psychological attributes of learners and their engagement in second language (L2) learning helps to understand the critical personality mechanisms influencing language learning.
Chenggang Wu, Xiaoyong Tian, Hui Jin
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Teacher support, grit and L2 willingness to communicate: the mediating effect of foreign language enjoyment [PDF]

BMC Psychology
Informed by some relevant theories of positive psychology, the current study examined the interrelations among teacher support, grit, and L2 willingness to communicate (WTC), focusing mainly on the mediating role of foreign language enjoyment (FLE).
Yanyu Yang, Yongze Cui, Suhua Yao
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Navigating the Mediating Role of Immunity, Buoyancy, and Emotion Regulation to L2 Grit and Mindfulness Among EFL Teachers [PDF]

Issues in Language Teaching, 2023
The importance of studying teachers' professional well-being has increased greatly in recent years. However, researchers have not paid enough attention to how teachers' levels of immunity, buoyancy, and emotion regulation (ER) in the classroom all play a
Ehsan Namaziandost, Tahereh Heydarnejad, Afsheen Rezai   +2 more
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Exploring Grit: “Grit Linguistics” and Research on Domain-General Grit and L2 Grit

Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2021
Grit is described as a unitary construct comprised of two elements, perseverance of effort (PE, or ongoing hard work) and consistency of interest (CI, referred to as “passion”). PE and CI together equate to success or achievement, according to the creator of the construct, Angela Duckworth (2016). Grit, which has supporters and detractors, says success
Rebecca Oxford, Gholam Hassan Khajavy
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On Domain-Specific Conceptualization and Measurement of Grit in L2 Learning

Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2021
As a personality trait, second language (L2) grit—a combination of perseverance and passion for L2 learning—has recently been proposed as a meaningful predictor of learners’ motivational behavior and L2 achievement. The results of a growing body of empirical studies carried out in various L2 contexts have substantiated the power of L2 grit in ...
Yasser Teimouri, Ekaterina Sudina, Luke Plonsky   +2 more
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ADAPTATION AND INITIAL VALIDATION OF THE L2-GRIT SCALE IN TURKISH

Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi SBE Dergisi, 2023
Even though grit in language education, as an individual difference among learners, has recently been a very popular field in second language acquisition research, a few language-specific tools rather than domain-general ones to measure this individual difference have only been developed very recently. To add, adapted versions of these tools are needed
Özgehan UŞTUK, Ali ERARSLAN
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L2 Grit and Language Mindset as Predictors of L2 Proficiency

Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
This study aimed to broaden the understanding of the predictive roles of these two non-cognitive abilities (i.e., L2 grit and language mindset) in L2 proficiency. The participants of this study were 100 English major students in China who took the TEM4 in 2021.
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Perseverance of Effort and Consistency of Interest: A Longitudinal Perspective

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
The present research, enlightened by the dynamic approach to language learning, aimed to trace the co-development of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ perseverance of effort (PE) and consistency of interest (CI), the two subdomains of grit ...
Rouhua Wang, Majid Elahi Shirvan, Tahereh Taherian   +2 more
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Review on L2-Grit: Connotation and Development

Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022
"Grit" is often considered as an important positive psychological factor for success, and has caught the attention of scholars in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) recently. A thorough study of grit’s influence on language learning will enrich its factor analysis on successful second language learning, and help to intervene and adjust the ...
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The Motivation–Grit–Achievement Relationship in L2 Reading and Listening: Focusing on the Ideal L2 Self

International Journal of Applied Linguistics
ABSTRACT This study examines the robustness of the motivation–grit–achievement relationship in second language (L2) reading and listening, extending previous research conducted on writing and speaking. To address increasing concerns regarding the validity of the binary‐type ideal self scale, the motivation variable is redefined using ...
Hitoshi Mikami, Toru Yamagami
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