Examining resilience in EFL contexts: A survey study of university students in China

Rining Wei, Yang Wang, Xinyu Li*

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Abstract

Resilience, a psychological individual difference variable, has not received adequate scholarly attention in education contexts. The present study investigated the resilience level among 273 university EFL learners in China with T.-Y. Kim and Kim's (2017. The impact of resilience on L2 learners' motivated behaviour and proficiency in L2 learning. Educational Studies 43(1). 1-15) scale, which comprised five sub-components of resilience in the Korean EFL context. Confirmatory factor analysis and reliability analysis showed that self-regulation, one sub-component identified in the Korean context, was also found in the factorial structure of resilience in the Chinese EFL context; accordingly, self-regulation was hypothesised to be a "Resilience Core"that can be found in different learning contexts. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that the selected sociobiographical variables (e.g., a global measure of multilingualism, GMM) affected resilience and "Resilience Core"to varying degrees; for example, L2 joy (ΔR2 = 14.2-23.3%) and GMM (2.9-7.8%) emerged as important predictors for resilience because their minimum ΔR2 exceeded the "typical"effect size benchmark (1%).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1773-1797
Number of pages25
JournalIRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
Volume61
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Nov 2023

Keywords

  • bilingualism
  • effect size
  • multilingualism
  • psychological profile
  • resilience

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