Examining predictive effects of general grit and L2 grit on motivated behavior: The mediating effect of self-perceived proficiency

MIROSLAW PAWLAK; LI CHENGCHEN; JOANNA ZAWODNIAK; MARIUSZ KRUK

doi:10.30827/portalin.viIX.29884

Autores/as

MIROSLAW PAWLAK Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland; University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland (Corresponding author) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7448-355X
LI CHENGCHEN Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
JOANNA ZAWODNIAK University of Zielona Góra, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3219-145X
MARIUSZ KRUK University of Zielona Góra, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5297-1966

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/portalin.viIX.29884

Palabras clave:

personalidad; tenacidad general; tenacidad sobre la L2; motivación; conocimiento auto-percibido de la L2

Resumen

Ante el reciente aumento en el interés por el papel que desempeñan los rasgos de personalidad en el aprendizaje de una segunda lengua (L2), el presente trabajo se centra en la tenacidad en la L2 (L2 grit), un factor importante de diferencias individuales cada vez más reconocido entre los investigadores de la adquisición de una L2. Adoptando un enfoque metodológico mixto, se examinaron los efectos predictivos de la tenacidad general y la tenacidad en la L2 sobre la motivación de 549 estudiantes universitarios polacos de Estudios Ingleses con nivel avanzado de conocimiento de la lengua, y se analizó el grado en que dichos efectos estaban mediados por su autopercepción del nivel de conocimiento de la L2. Los datos se recogieron mediante la Escala de Tenacidad (Duckworth et al., 2007), la Escala de Tenacidad en L2 (Teimouri et al., 2022), la Escala de Motivación (Taguchi et al., 2009) y entrevistas semiestructuradas. El análisis cuantitativo demostró que la tenacidad general y la tenacidad en la L2 predijeron de forma conjunta y de manera significativa la motivación de los aprendices, siendo más pronunciado el efecto de la tenacidad en la L2. Sin embargo, se encontraron diferencias entre los participantes dependiendo de su nivel de conocimiento de la L2. Estos resultados se corroboraron mediante el análisis cualitativo de los datos de las entrevistas.

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Biografía del autor/a

MIROSLAW PAWLAK, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland; University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland (Corresponding author)

Professor of English, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Professor of English, University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Konin, Poland

LI CHENGCHEN, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Associate Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

JOANNA ZAWODNIAK, University of Zielona Góra, Poland

Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, University of Zielona Góra, Poland

MARIUSZ KRUK, University of Zielona Góra, Poland

Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, University of Zielona Góra, Poland

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