Exploring L2 grit in the Chinese EFL context

Rining Wei, He Liu, Shijie Wang*

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Abstract

Grit, viz. a combination of perseverance and passion for long-term goals, is a psychological variable that has recently attracted scholarly attention. Research along this psychological line is significant because it complements the rich on-going research on cognitive variables. The seminal research by Plonsky (2018) and colleagues has validated an instrument to measure what they call ‘L2 grit’ in the Iranian EFL context. As a partial replication of the above research in the Chinese context, the present study confirmed the two-fold structure of L2 grit identified in the seminal research, and found that the selected socio-biographical variables (e.g. multilingualism, L2 joy, age, and gender) were linked to L2 grit to varying degrees. Additionally, this study proposes providing a range of effect sizes for each predictor in hierarchical regression as a more refined data analysis approach. Suggestions (e.g. considering a wider multilingual population) are made for future research.

Original languageEnglish
Article number102295
JournalSystem
Volume93
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2020

Keywords

  • Effect size
  • Hierarchical regression
  • L2 grit
  • L2 joy
  • Language competence

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Wei, R., Liu, H., & Wang, S. (2020). Exploring L2 grit in the Chinese EFL context. System, 93, Article 102295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2020.102295