TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining resilience in EFL contexts
T2 - A survey study of university students in China
AU - Wei, Rining
AU - Wang, Yang
AU - Li, Xinyu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
PY - 2023/11/27
Y1 - 2023/11/27
N2 - 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%).
AB - 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%).
KW - bilingualism
KW - effect size
KW - multilingualism
KW - psychological profile
KW - resilience
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85140069320&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/iral-2021-0221
DO - 10.1515/iral-2021-0221
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140069320
SN - 0019-042X
VL - 61
SP - 1773
EP - 1797
JO - IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
JF - IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
IS - 4
ER -