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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5394-1475
Abstract
Senior high school (SHS) students in the Philippines are required to produce various academic papers that adhere to the properties of well-written texts. However, studies found that SHS students encounter difficulties with writing across a variety of content and ideas, vocabulary, diction, sentence and paragraph structures, language usage, and referencing (Pablo et al., 2018; Urbano et al., 2021). Despite these concerns, they are expected to persevere and show interest in improving their writing skills. In this context, this quantitative-descriptive study aimed to analyze the potential influences of sociocultural factors on the writing mindset and grit of the SHS students in writing academic papers and to determine which demographic variables (nationality, academic track, and gender) predict them. Using a writing mindset scale and a grit scale, it was found that participants’ writing growth mindsets are consistently superior to their writing fixed mindsets, and their overall grit scores are stable across all stages of the academic writing process. The participants’ nationality was found to be significant in predicting their writing growth mindset, whereas nationality and academic track were significant in predicting their writing fixed mindset when writing academic papers. Lastly, no sociocultural factor was found to be significant in predicting the participants’ overall grit in writing academic papers. These results indicate that success in the academic writing process is based not only on learners’ cognitive abilities, but also on their self-perceptions as writers and whether their writing abilities are fixed or malleable.
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Recommended Citation
Pastor, John George and Mante-Estacio, Ma. Joahna
(2026)
"Students’ Writing Mindset and Grit: Influences of Nationality, Academic Track, and Gender,"
Journal of English and Applied Linguistics: Vol. 5:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59588/2961-3094.1244
Available at:
https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/jeal/vol5/iss1/6
