SOURCES OF PERCEIVED BELIEFS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING SELF-EFFICACY

Abstract

The current article deals with the data collected for the PhD project carried out by the same author. The article talks about the sources of self-efficacy of the participants and how these sources contribute to the final strength of self-efficacy. The data was collected from a group of L2 English language learners .The focus of the data analysis in this article was to find out the contribution of the self-efficacy sources to its final strength in L2 English speaking context. Findings indicate that the Mastery Experience is the strongest source of all and contribute maximum to the final strength of self-efficacy in L2 English speaking context.