The Role of Academic Confidence and Grit in Willingness to Communicate of Iranian EFL Students in Outside, Inside and Online Classrooms

Academic Confidence, Grit and WTC of students play important roles in their second language achievement. This paper examined the role of academic confidence and grit in willingness to communicate of Iranian EFL students in different communicative and educational contexts. To this end, ۳۸۵ EFL students responded to the relevant questionnaires. The analysis of the data revealed that the students with higher levels of academic confidence and grit had a higher L۲ WTC in in-class, out-of-class, and online classrooms. The results also revealed that the students’ grit was a predictor of their L۲ WTC in all communicative contexts, and the university students scored the highest, followed by language institute and senior secondary school students. Moreover, academic confidence and grit had significant relationship with L۲ WTC of students in senior secondary schools, language institutes and universities. Another finding was that grit was a predictor of all groups’ L۲ WTC, while academic confidence predicted L۲ WTC of students in language institutes and universities. The results of this study have implications for EFL teachers.

کلیدواژه ها:

Academic Confidence ، Communicative and Educational Contexts ، EFL students ، grit ، willingness to communicate