Influences of socio-cultural factors on the writing mindset and grit of the senior high school students in writing academic papers
Date of Publication
9-19-2022
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in English Language Education
Subject Categories
Secondary Education
College
Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education
Department/Unit
Dept of English and Applied Linguistics
Thesis Advisor
Maria Joahna M. Estacio
Defense Panel Chair
Rochelle Irene G. Lucas
Defense Panel Member
Paolo Nino M. Valdez
Jonna Marie S. Lim
Abstract/Summary
This causal, quantitative-descriptive study aimed to analyze the potential influences of socio-cultural factors on the writing mindset and grit of the Senior High School students in writing academic papers and to determine which demographic variables (gender, ethnicity, academic track) predict them. Using the writing mindset scale (Sieben, 2015) and the short grit scale or Grit-S (Duckworth & Quinn, 2009), it was found that the participants’ writing growth mindsets are consistently more superior to their writing fixed mindsets, and their overall grit scores are stable at a somewhat gritty level across all stages of the academic writing process. The responses in the reflection prompts were also analyzed for recurring ideas and some were cited to support or validate the findings of the quantitative data. The results showed that only the participants' ethnicity, not their gender or academic track, was found to be significant in predicting their writing growth mindset, whereas only ethnicity and academic track, but not gender, were significant in predicting their writing fixed mindset when writing academic papers. Lastly, no socio-cultural factor was found to be significant in predicting the participants’ overall grit in writing academic papers. The knowledge that arises out of this investigation asserts that success in the academic writing process is based not only on a person's cognitive abilities, but also on their perceptions of themselves and their writing abilities. Discovering the unknown characteristics of writing mindset and grit could lead to a greater understanding of the nature of self-beliefs and how they interact with learners' individual thinking processes at different stages of the writing process.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Electronic
Physical Description
297 leaves
Keywords
Academic writing
Recommended Citation
Pastor, J. P. (2022). Influences of socio-cultural factors on the writing mindset and grit of the senior high school students in writing academic papers. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdm_deal/13
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