Measuring L2 Grit and Exploring How Much Learners Need It to Succeed

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16 November, 2021

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Join us for an upcoming talk with Dr. Paula Winke, part of our Language Education Speaker Series. Language Education Speaker SeriesThe BU Wheelock Language Education Speakers Series brings well-known scholars in the field of applied linguistics to campus to discuss their work. These talks are open to all members of the BU community, as well as scholars and students of applied linguistics throughout the Greater Boston area. Measuring L2 Grit Not Once, but Twice, and Exploring How Much Learners Need It to Succeed, with Dr. Paula WinkeDr. Paula Winke, Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, & Cultures and Director of the Second Language Studies Ph.D. Program at Michigan State University People who have perseverance and passion for a goal, and work on obtaining the goal diligently and over a long period of time despite hardships and obstacles, can be said to have true grit (Duckworth, 2007, 2016). Learning a foreign language, one might surmise, takes grit. Within educational linguistics, researchers have started to ask just that: whether second language (L2) grit impacts L2 learning, and if yes, why, and how much? Dr. Winke will present a replication study of Teimouri et al. (2020) that adapted a survey by Duckworth that measures people’s overall grit into a survey on L2 grit. She will stress why replication of Temouri et al.’s research is important (and why research replication overall is important) and also how data demonstrates that the theory L2 grit may overlap with theories of L2-learning motivation. About Dr. Paula WinkePaula Winke is a professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages & Cultures at Michigan State University, where she is director of the Second Language Studies PhD program. She researches language testing methods and individual differences and learner characteristics that affect L2-learning outcomes.She is co-editor (with Luke Harding) of the international journal Language Testing, and she is an upcoming, summer 2022, Fulbright Scholar to the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her recent books are The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing (2021), and Foreign Language Proficiency in Higher Education (2019). Dr. Winke won the research article of the year awards from CALICO Journal (2008), TESOL International (2012), and the American Association of Applied Linguistics (2020).

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