Grit is among the individual difference (ID) variables that have recently come to the attention of researchers investigating second language acquisition. While some empirical evidence has been accumulated, it is clearly scant and limited, also because of the fact that many studies have looked into domain-general grit rather than this attribute as related to learning second or foreign languages. The present article seeks to fill this gap by reporting the findings of a study which has investigated the relationships among grit and a number of other ID factors, that is, domain-general grit, intended effort, language learning enjoyment, and language learning curiosity, as well as background variables, such as age, gender, year of study and experience in learning the target language. Correlational analyses, regression analyses, independent samples and paired t-tests, as well as one way ANOVAs were run on the data collected from 99 Polish students majoring in English. The main finding was that while language learning enjoyment is a direct predictor of L2 grit for younger students, general grit only enters the picture in the case of older students, being itself predicted by enjoyment. The results serve as a basis for the assumption that L2 grit is distinct from general grit, its levels may differ for different languages being learnt and it is likely to be malleable.

毅力是最近引起研究第二语言习得的研究人员注意的个体差异 (ID) 变量之一。虽然已经积累了一些经验证据，但它显然是缺乏和有限的，这也是因为许多研究已经研究了领域一般的毅力，而不是与学习第二语言或外语有关的这一属性。本文试图通过报告一项研究的结果来填补这一空白，该研究调查了毅力与许多其他 ID 因素之间的关系，即领域一般的毅力、预期的努力、语言学习的乐趣和语言学习的好奇心，以及背景变量，例如年龄、性别、学习年份和学习目标语言的经验。相关分析、回归分析、t检验以及对从 99 名主修英语的波兰学生收集的数据进行方差分析的一种方式。主要发现是，虽然语言学习的乐趣是低年级学生第二语言毅力的直接预测因素，但一般的毅力只在年长学生的情况下才会出现，这本身就是由乐趣来预测的。该结果可作为假设 L2 毅力不同于一般毅力的基础，其水平可能因学习的不同语言而异，并且可能具有延展性。