The Relationship Between Grit and Willingness to Communicate of Senior High School Students

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the relationship between grit and willingness to communicate among L2 senior high school students. The design of this study is quantitative correlational study. The data were collected through an online survey with two questionnaires, Grit scale questionnaire by Duckworth et. al. (2007) and L2 WTC questionnaire by Lee (2020). 170 students participated in this study. The data were analyzed using Pearson Product-Moment Correlation of SPSS. The result of this study shows that the dimension of Grit (Perseverance of Effort) has a significant and positive relationship with students Willingness to Communicate with r = .217. While the dimensions of Grit (Consistency of Interest) are not significant with the students Willingness to Communicate with r = .034. This result means that the students who have a higher perseverance of effort would be more likely to be willing to communicate in the classroom, while students' interest have nothing to do with their willingness in the classroom rather than it because of other factors.