ADAPTATION AND INITIAL VALIDATION OF THE L2-GRIT SCALE IN TURKISH

Abstract

Even though grit in language education, as an individual difference among learners, has recently been a very popular field in second language acquisition research, a few language-specific tools rather than domain-general ones to measure this individual difference have only been developed very recently. To add, adapted versions of these tools are needed to examine this notion across cultures and contexts. This study presents psychometric analyses of an adapted version of a language-specific grit scale in the Turkish language: the L2-Grit Scale in Turkish. An adapted scale was translated and administered to 284 university students studying at various universities across Turkey and learning English as a foreign language. Statistical analyses such as item, reliability, and exploratory factor analyses were run. The results showed that the L2-Grit Scale in Turkish is a highly reliable and internally consistent tool with a two-factor solution, and it can not only inform further grit research in the Turkish context but also contribute to this globally bourgeoning field.