Effects of Learners’ Self-Efficacy on English Learning Achievement

Abstract

Self-efficacy measures one’s beliefs about personal comprehension in a particular situation, which is a key mechanism in cognitive theory and plays an important role in learners’ motivation and learning (Schunk, 2003). Therefore, this paper concentrates on studying the effect of a learner’s self-efficacy on his final learning achievement in English area, and then analyzes how to cultivate students’ self-efficacy to get further improvement.