EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENGLISH TEACHER’S ENJOYMENT AND GRIT
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The role of teachers in the education sector in general is one of the main keys in educating students as the nation's successors. In this research, English language teachers are considered to have an important role in preparing students' foreign language skills in the era of globalization and competition in the future. Teachers tend to feel various kinds of obstacles, demands for competence, skills, qualities, duties and responsibilities. This can affect the teacher's emotions in managing the class and can even be a reason for the teacher to quit their job. This conducted research aims to examine whether there is a relationship between positive emotions, or enjoyment, and persistence, or grit, of English language teachers. The criterion of participant namely being Indonesian citizens, working as English teachers, and working in an educational institution, such as a school, course, or even just private tutoring. The measuring instruments used in this research is The Enjoy Scale to measure enjoyment and Teacher Grit Scale (TGS) to measure grit. The participants who were successfully collected were 111 people. Data was collected using a purposive sampling technique and using quantitative methods in the type of non-experimental correlation research. Data collection was carried out via Google Form, and hard copy or printed questionnaire, using data processing via the SPSS 24.0 for Windows application. Testing the research hypothesis used Spearman correlation and obtained the results r(111) = 0.494, p = 0.000 < 0.05, which means the data shows a significant positive relationship.
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