“…Thus, the current study's findings could be attributed to the possibility that Saudi EFL students might have experienced positive mastery experience related to reading, which were responsible for increasing their reading selfefficacy beliefs. This finding is consistent with a number of studies (Arslan, 2012;Chen & Usher, 2013;Kaya & Bozdag, 2016;Kiran & Sungur, 2012;Kudo & Mori, 2015;Lin, 2016;Lin & Tsai, 2018;Phan, 2012;Phan & Ngu, 2016;Shehzad, Alghorbany, Lashari, Lashari, & Razzaq, 2019;Usher & Pajares, 2009). The aforementioned speculation requires further approval from future studies.…”