A Survey Of Self-efficacy And Anxiety In Chinese Learning

Since the sixties of the twentieth century,the field of language teaching has slowly turned its sight to the student-centered learning,not just focus on the teacher-centered teaching,which is influenced by humanistic psychology.Many scholars have realized that the research of student-centered can find out more about their thinking and modality changes.This paper's research object is based on the medical foreign students on Grade 2018 of Xi'an Jiaotong University.At the very beginning,the author obtained the personal information and basic institution of the medical students through questionnaires,primarily analyzes the investigation data in Statistical way and shows the result of descriptive analysis about varnables.According to the result,the author find out the relation between self-efficacy,anxiety and other factors.After that,the author explores the causes of inside factors and the influences of outside environment for anxiety basic on the Anxiety Cause Scale.Further more,the author finds out the solutions and methods to solve the problems of different anxiety groups.And last but not least,the author hopes that paper can provide useful information and practical basis to the research of Chinese teaching on medical foreign students,broaden the perspective of second language acquisition,deepen the study on Chinese language anxiety and self-efficacy and it is conducive to promoting the research of Chinese teaching.This paper divided into seven chapters.The main contents of each part are as follows:The first chapter is introduction which mainly expounds the cause of this research,the theoretic basis,the study of this subject at home and abroad with the research methods.During the internship,the author has found some problems of the students,then to investigate and study the personal information,self-efficacy,anxiety institution and causes on Chinese learning through questionnaires which based on Bandura's self-efficacy theory and Stephen.Krashen's Affective Filter Hypothesis.The second chapter is an introduction of the medical foreign students on grade 2018 of Xi'an Jiaotong University.The contents include brief introduction of college,cultivation plan and the student's basic circumstance.151 foreign students in 13 countries working on medical degree in 6-year programs.For the first year,they need to learn Chinese to lay a solid foundation for clinical practice on graduation time.The third chapter is mainly introduce questionnaire design concrete work and confidence evaluation.In this part,the author used three scales are The Sel.f-efficacy on Chinese Learning,The Chinese Learning Anxiety on Medical Students and FLCAS.In this process,the paper carries out exploratory factor analysis for data pre-treated and build trust model.The forth chapter is to show the statistical data results of the survey on charts.Then the author process and analyze the valid questionnaire by applying SPSS,according to the rulers of calculating scores.Specific content and conclusions are as follows:1.The anxiety level of test students is moderate anxiety and their self-efficacy is concentrated at a moderate and high level.There exists a significant negative correlation between anxiety and self-efficacy.2.Self-rating of Chinese proficiency has significantly positive correlation with self-efficacy and has significantly negative correlation with anxiety.The author holds that self-rating of Chinese proficiency can be a standard to balance the level of anxiety and self-efficacy to a Chinese learner.3.The reason of that students coming to China has significantly positive correlation with anxiety.The satisfaction of Chinese learning environment has significantly negative correlation with anxiety.Studies show that there is no evident correlation between the anxiety,self-efficacy and different gender,ages,hours of staying in China,nationalities,hours of learning Chinese and characters.The fifth chapter is about the anxiety causes of the test students.The author thinks that their anxiety is mainly from the Chinese learning at this stage is not in accordance with their expected learning contents and goals.Different anxiety level group has different causes.The sixth chapter aims at putting some purposeful and useful suggestions through practical institution from learned-centred,teachers,college and university.The seventh chapter intends to make a summary of the researches so as to provide readers a general knowledge of its researches and point out its shortcomings for its further development.