Chinese University Students’ Beliefs about English Language Learning and Self-efficacy

• Authors: Meihua Liu

Abstracts

EN

Learners’ beliefs on language learning and perceived self-efficacy are important to the success of their second/foreign language (SL/FL) learning. To reveal the general profiles of and relationship between Chinese students’ beliefs about English learning and self-efficacy, the present study examined beliefs about English learning and self-efficacy held by Chinese university EFL (English as a FL) learners at differing English proficiency levels. A total of 1,698 students from a top university in Beijing answered a battery of questionnaires. The results revealed a general overview of the students’ beliefs about the nature of language learning and the roles of teachers, feedback and learning strategies, and self-efficacy. Another major finding was that participants at different English proficiency levels differed significantly from one another in beliefs about language learning and self-efficacy.

Keywords

EN

English learning belief; self-efficacy; difference; proficiency; feedback; strategy

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Śląski
• Journal: Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-25

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Meihua Liu

• Tsinghua University, China

• https://orcid.org/0000000259514167

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/TAPSLA.12797

Biblioteka Nauki

22446701