The Effect of Resilience on EFL Learners’ Engagement in Online Education

Learners’ engagement is a variable denoting both learners’ motivation and their active participation and encompasses two basic constructs of emotional engagement and cognitive engagement. With the widespread use of virtual learning following the COVID-۱۹ pandemic, there were a multitude of studies investigating factors which would enhance learners’ engagement in various educational settings. However, EFL learners’ engagement in online education and factors affecting it has not received enough scientific attention. On the other hand, resilience has been found as a factor influencing learners’ performance in online settings. This concept refers to individuals’ ability to overcome educational difficulties and their persistence in spite of hardships. Nevertheless, despite its significant effect on decreasing individuals’ stress and promoting their psychological well-being, there remains a notable paucity of evidence establishing its role in the second language context. Hence, this review study aims to investigate the contribution of EFL learners’ resilience to their engagement in learning tasks and activities in an online context. It starts with a review of key concepts and models of resilience in education and proposes a number of enlightening suggestions for developing the learner’s level of resilience through enacting various pedagogical interventions. In this way, a heightened level of student’s engagement would help them achieve their desired level of English proficiency. Finally, the study provides a number of recommendations for future studies on learners’ resilience and emotional and cognitive engagement in a second/foreign language context.

کلیدواژه ها:

EFL learning ، online education ، positive psychology ، resilience ، students’ engagement