An investigation into Iranian EFL learners' level of writing self-efficacy

Abstract

This article sets out to examine the relationship between EFL learners' sense of self-efficacy and their writing achievement. In order to tackle with this question, two self-efficacy questionnaires were employed, English and General self-efficacy. Ninety-three Iranian EFL learners from four different universities in north-eastern part of Iran took part in the study. Pearson correlation and ANOVA were run to analyze the collected data. The findings indicated a significant relationship not only between learners' writing performance and English self-efficacy beliefs, but also between learners' writing performance and their General self-efficacy beliefs. It is worth mentioning that English self-efficacy beliefs showed stronger relationship with learners' writing performance as compared to General self-efficacy. © 2013 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland.