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The Relationships among EFL Learners’ Self Efficacy, Autonomy and Listening Comprehension Ability

Dr.Tahriri
University of Guilan

Seminar

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This paper investigates the relationships among autonomy, self-efficacy and listening comprehension for second language (L2) learning. These elements are defined by a lot of researches. These definitions and explanations are considered in the review of literature. The explanation of these factors and their effects on listening comprehension skill is taking to the consideration in separate sections. Since the focus of education has shifted from teacher-directed to learner-oriented instruction in recent decades, the major part of body of research in the field …show more content…

The study was conducted within college-level English listening comprehension classes at two large universities in Taiwan. The students‟ listening course grades were used as the students‟ listening proficiency level. A survey questionnaire which consisted of two sub-scales of 1) English listening self-efficacy scale constructed by the researcher, and 2) English anxiety and perceived English value scale adapted respectively from Betz‟s (1987) Mathematics Anxiety Scale (MAS) and Eccles‟ (1983) Student Attitude Questionnaire was performed in this study. Results of this study indicated that there was a significant and positive relationship between self-efficacy beliefs and listening achievement. The results also showed that students‟ self-efficay beliefs were much stronger predicators of language performance in the area of listening than students‟ anxiety and perceived value …show more content…

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