Individual Differences' Impacts on English Public Speaking Self-Efficacy

• In Event: 47.096 - MTCC Roundtable Session 20
  In Roundtable Session: 47.096-12 - Language Across Domains: Literacy and Oracy Experiences for Emergent Bilinguals in the Curriculum

Abstract

Grounded in Bandura’s self-efficacy theory, this study investigated the degree to which four sources of self-efficacy—enactive mastery experience (EME), vicarious experience (VE), verbal persuasion (VP), and physiological and affective states (PAS) —predicted EPS self-efficacy among 263 adult Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language learners. Results in the combined sample largely support Bandura’s hypothesized sources of self-efficacy making unique contributions to predicting EPS self-efficacy. Results by subsamples highlight prior EPS course experience, gender, and academic major as factors that may impact the existence and the magnitude of the relationships between self-efficacy and its theoretical sources. Pedagogical recommendations for EPS self-efficacy building are discussed.

Authors

• Xue (Snowy) Zhang

• Yuliya Ardasheva, Washington State University - Tri-Cities