ABSTRACT
This paper gives a questionnaire survey to some English major students in X University of Science and Technology by random sampling to know students' understanding and importance learning self-efficacy. It showed that there are five influential factors with self-efficacy. Learning motivation, personality, teachers' expectations, class atmosphere, family environment and campus surroundings. In return, self-efficacy also has great significance to their study and life. It finally discusses possible measures taken to improve self-efficacy on learning English according to the results of the questionnaire.
1. Introduction 1
2. Academic self-efficacy 2
2.1 Origin and definition 2
2.2 Current research 2
2.2.1 Factors self-efficacy affects 2
2.2.2 Factors affecting self-efficacy 3
3. Questionnaire survey on English major students in ZUST 6
3.1 Students' understanding and importance to learning self-efficacy 6
3.2 Influence factors with self-efficacy 7
3.2.1 Student perspective 7
3.2.2 Teacher perspective 8
3.2.3 Family perspective 10
3.2.4 Class perspective 11
3.2.5 School perspective 12
3.3 Significance to students' study and life 12
4. Measures to be taken to improve self-efficacy 13
4.1 Student perspective 13
4.2 Teacher perspective 13
4.3 Family perspective 15
4.4 Class perspective 15
4.3 School perspective 16
5. Conclusion 18
Acknowledgements 19
References 20
