EFL students' self-efficacy in English and their self-regulated language learning strategies at Nguyen Khuyen High School: Master of TESOL

Abstract

English is one of the most compulsory subjects at high school in Vietnam and high school students find learning English demanding for them for some objective and subjective reasons. It is essential for the EFL students to have self-efficacy in learning English, i.e., belief in one’s ability to learn English confidently. There are four skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing that these high school students have to enroll during three years at high school. Each skill requires the students to use appropriate strategies to learn English well. The students are required to be provided and able to apply a variety of self-regulated language learning strategies for four skills properly. It can be seen that if the students have self-efficacy for listening, speaking, reading and writing, they will use different self-regulated language learning strategies to study these four skills successfully. The aim of this thesis is to find out Nguyen Khuyen high school students’ self-efficacy and their self-regulated language learning strategies, and the relationship between self-efficacy and self regulated language learning strategies. The total of 240 eleventh-grade students at Nguyen Khuyen high school, Vung Tau city participated in this research. They were asked to complete two sets of questionnaire about self-efficacy and self-regulated language learning strategies. The results indicated that the participants had their self-efficacy for listening, speaking, reading and writing. Based on their self-efficacy, they applied various self-regulated language learning strategies for these four skills. Additionally, the results showed that there was a relationship between Nguyen Khuyen high school students’ self-efficacy and their self-regulated language learning. The study suggests some implication for teachers and students at Nguyen Khuyen high school so that the teachers of English can encourage their students’ self efficacy and recommends some self-regulated language learning strategies for their students to help their learning English more effectively and communicatively.