Attribution and Self‐Efficacy and Their Interrelationship in the Korean EFL Context

Abstract

This study examined the interrelationships between learners' attributions and selfefficacy and their achievements in learning English as a foreign language. Participants were 192 ninth-grade English learners in Korea who were asked to provide attribution and self-efficacy ratings upon receiving test grades. Results indicated that learners with different levels of self-efficacy ratings endorsed attributions differently for successful and unsuccessful outcomes. Learners with higher levels of self-efficacy attributed their test results to more internal and personal control factors than those who reported lower self-efficacy levels. For learners who were unsuccessful, those with higher self-efficacy made stronger personal control attributions than learners with lower self-efficacy.

Motivation and Foreign Language Learning

“…Additionally, self-efficacy for selfregulation was also found to be positively correlated with perceptions of the value of French and French culture, leading the authors to conclude that, in the classroom context, levels of self-regulation will be related to students' interest in the language and cultures associated with it. In another study examining self-efficacy and achievement in language learning, this time in a Korean context with 9 th grade students learning English, Hsieh and Kang (2010) found, as anticipated, the two variables to be positively correlated.…”

Measuring Self-Perceptions of Oral Narrative Competencies and Anxiety in the EFL Context

“…Further follow-up studies will relieve this shortcoming. Further research should also examine the relations of both the self-perceptions and anxiety scale with other task-specific self-perceptions -also considering the self-efficacy construct and academic emotions (Ferla, Valcke & Cai, 2009;Goetz, Cronjaeger, Frenzel, Lüdtke & Hall, 2010;Hsieh & Kang, 2010). They should also answer the question to what extent these processes could sensibly be implemented already at lower school grades.…”

The Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners’ Self- efficacy Beliefs and Reading Comprehension Ability

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