Grit of Grade 7 Learners and its Correlation with English Language Learning

Grit means working tirelessly and consistently toward a difficult purpose, maintaining effort, and maintaining an unwavering interest through long periods of time despite failures, setbacks, and hurdles, as well as moments of stability along the way. The main purpose of this research was to examine the correlation of grit of Grade 7 learners to the English language learning. The study used a descriptive survey particularly a descriptive correlation approach while the questionnaire was adopted from previous studies, data were collected from 283 Grade 7 students at Mariveles National High School-Poblacion using a simple random sampling. In addition, the grit of Grade 7 students on English language learning when grouped according to their age, gender, and average grade in English 6 revealed that there was significant variation in the grit of Grade 7 students on English language learning when grouped according to the average grade in English 6. The computed F-value was 8.317 with a p-value of 0.000. The null hypothesis was rejected at 5% alpha; thus the null hypothesis is rejected. However, the null hypothesis was accepted when grouped according to age and gender with F-values of 1.539 and 0.835, respectively. Furthermore, Pearson r-values on the correlation of the perceived factors and the grit of Grade 7 learners on English language learning revealed that there was a significant high positive correlation between the intrinsic factors and the grit of Grade 7 in English language learning with an r-value of 0.813. This study concluded that there was a high to moderate positive correlation between the perceived factors and the grit of Grade 7 students on English language learning. This study also recommended using various ages sample to prove that the age variable does not have significant variation to the grit and academic achievement of the students and to use the proposed action plan that would build up the grit of Grade 7 students to enhance their performances in learning the English language.