An Empirical Study On The Relationship Between Self-efficacy And Vocational College Students’ English Achievement

As a basic subject,English education plays an essential role in students’ development.How to improve the effect of English learning is a subject that scholars have been studying.Scholars have found that self-efficacy,the degree of self-confidence in the ability to complete a task,plays an important role in learning.At present,there is much research on self-efficacy,but the relationship between self-efficacy and English achievement of vocational college students is insufficient.Besides,most of them only rely on a questionnaire survey.This study is to explore the differences of self-efficacy among genders,majors and grades,the relationship between English achievement and self-efficacy,and to explore effective ways to improve students’ self-efficacy.A questionnaire survey was conducted among 654 students of three majors in Anqing Medical College and an interview was given to 8 of them in order to find out the differences in individual self-efficacy.On this basis,a ten-week teaching intervention was conducted in a first-grade pharmacy class.The results of the questionnaire and English test were compared with those of a control class before and after the intervention.The results of the questionnaire survey and interview show that the self-efficacy of boys is higher than that of girls;sophomores and the major of nursing have the highest self-efficacy;self-efficacy has a distinct positive predictive effect on English achievement.The results of the intervention teaching found that active and effective teaching methods,such as the training of learning strategies,setting reasonable learning goals,setting a successful example of learning,and giving encouragement to students,can all contribute to enhancing self-efficacy.