Changing language mindsets: Implications for goal orientations and responses to failure in and outside the second language classroom

TL;DR: Grit has been defined as a combination of perseverance and passion for long-term goals as mentioned in this paper, which has been found to be an important predictor of success in various aspects of life.

TL;DR: The authors examined the role of growth mindset, selfefficacy, and intrinsic value in self-regulated learning and English language learning achievements in Hong Kong primary school students, and found that self-efficacy and self-esteem were important factors for success.

TL;DR: The Language Mindsets Inventory (LMI) as mentioned in this paper was used to test the learner's mindsets for language learning and found that learners' mindsets predict the goals that they set for learning, and that these goals in turn affect how they respond to difficult academic and communication episodes.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed existing studies of learners' mindsets in language education to summarize current knowledge and to identify research gaps, and highlighted that learners' mental states are associated with various motivational factors in a meaning-making system that guides learners' emotional responses and behavioural acts across different situations.

TL;DR: The book aims to provide the skills necessary to begin to use SEM in research and to interpret and critique the use of method by others.

TL;DR: This article disentangle conflicting definitions of moderated mediation and describes approaches for estimating and testing a variety of hypotheses involving conditional indirect effects, showing that the indirect effect of intrinsic student interest on mathematics performance through teacher perceptions of talent is moderated by student math self-concept.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a research-based model that accounts for these patterns in terms of underlying psychological processes, and place the model in its broadest context and examine its implications for our understanding of motivational and personality processes.