Students' English Study, Independent Study And Self-efficacy Relationship

The Vocational College (called VC below) is a certain type in the college field which puts emphasis on technique appliance and career orientation. The goal of VC is to develop practical talents for the society. The purpose of English teaching in VC is to develop students' appliance abilities of English depends on students' self-regulated English learning, which refers to students' active, conscious and independent learning. However, Self-efficacy is one of the key factors that affect students' self-regulated English learning. Self-efficacy refers to learner's beliefs about their abilities to accomplish a task (Bandura, 1986). In this thesis, self-efficacy refers to students' self-confidence in the ability of their English learning.Self-efficacy shows direct proportion to students' learning initiative and their achievement. The higher self-efficacy is, the more actively students learn English. But in English teaching, we found that many students in VC have lower self-efficacy and self-regulated English learning abilities, which results in general lower remarks among students. Most students can not go through the SCET3. Based on the Humanistic theory, the social cognitive theory, etc., this thesis clarifies the roles of students' self-efficacy in self-regulated English learning, then by survey, contrast and analyses, we find that students have lower average self-efficacy and that the main sources of students' self-efficacy are setting goals, verbal persuasion, the level of VC and so on. After analyzing the characteristics of VC, we put forward some strategies to enhance students' self-efficacy, such as improving students' practical abilities on using English by teachers' guiding and developing their self-confidence through setting definite goals.