Discuss high school students learning English to develop self-efficacy.doc

Discuss high school students learning English to develop self-efficacy 1 and the role of self-efficacy theory Self-efficacy theory is the American psychologist Bandura proposed a theory of motivation. The so-called self-efficacy refers to the individual operations in the implementation of an act before they can be completed on what level of activity with the act of faith, self-judgment or subject to grasp and feel. The establishment of self-efficacy of people’s behavior and achievements significant role in promoting. motivation is an important factor affecting learning one, and students’ self-efficacy is an important source of motivation. Self-efficacy has the following features: First, influence or determine people’s behavior and the behavior of the choice of firmness, level of effort. Individuals with high self-efficacy tend to choose challenging tasks, in the face of difficulties to adhere to their own behavior, and efforts to try to overcome the difficulties, individuals with low self-efficacy is the opposite. Second, the impact on people’s thinking or emotional response patterns, thereby affecting the acquisition of new behavior. individuals with high self-efficacy to face the new environment When convinced that he can grasp a good environment, which will focus on solving problems, while individuals with low self-efficacy are more likely to focus on the failure, resulting in anxiety, fear and other emotions, hinder the development of their capabilities. In recent years, self-efficacy more and more attention. A number of studies show that: the level of self-efficacy and physical and mental health and learning are closely related in learning, self-efficacy affects students’ motivation for learning activities, participate in teaching interest in the establishment of personal goals, attitude towards the difficulties, the degree of effort put into causal thinking (due to the methods in the physical and mental health, self-efficacy affects students’