A Correlational Study on Grit and English Learning Enjoyment of Non-English Major Students

In the field of second language acquisition, relevant research from the perspective of positive psychology has gained widespread attention in recent years. As one of the essential positive psychological elements, grit has not been studied and explored enough by scholars in the field of SLA. This study aims to explore the correlation between grit and enjoyment using two seperate scales and the research objects are non-English major college students. In addition, the correlation between grit and English learning enjoyment will be further studied under the intervention of gender and grade, aiming to widen relevant research on grit in the field of SLA and provide some reference for English teachers and learners to some extent. According to the study results, there is a significant positive correlation between grit and English learning enjoyment, indicating that students with higher grit level also have higher level of English learning enjoyment. And students from different grades have different teacher-related English learning enjoyment level which can cause certain effect to students’ grit level.