Student Satisfaction with EFL Speaking Classes: Relating Speaking Self-Efficacy and Skills Achievement

Autor/inn/en	Asakereh, Ahmad; Dehghannezhad, Maliheh
Titel	Student Satisfaction with EFL Speaking Classes: Relating Speaking Self-Efficacy and Skills Achievement
Quelle	In: Issues in Educational Research, 25 (2015) 4, S.345-363 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-7155
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Students; Student Satisfaction; English (Second Language); Speech Communication; Speech Skills; Self Efficacy; Skill Development; Language Proficiency; Questionnaires; Likert Scales; Scores; Correlation; Achievement Gains; Speech Instruction; Multiple Regression Analysis; Predictor Variables; Language Tests; Second Language Learning; Iran; Test of English as a Foreign Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Mündliche Leistung; Sprachfertigkeit; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Fragebogen; Likert-Skala; Korrelation; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Speech training; Sprechübung; Prädiktor; Language test; Sprachtest; Zweitsprachenerwerb
Abstract	This study investigated the relationship between student satisfaction with speaking classes, speaking skills self-efficacy beliefs, and speaking skills achievement. To this end, one hundred Iranian EFL undergraduate students filled out two questionnaires; a research-made and pilot-tested questionnaire for student satisfaction with speaking classes, and a questionnaire for speaking skills self-efficacy beliefs, adapted from Rahimi and Abedini (2009), Gahungu (2007), Wang et al. (2013), and Saeidi and Ebrahimi Farshchi (2012). Participants' final scores in speaking skills were collected from their instructors and regarded as a measure of their speaking skills achievement. The results of Pearson correlation analyses showed that both student satisfaction with speaking classes and speaking skills self-efficacy beliefs had significant positive correlations with speaking skills achievement, with the latter being stronger. Moreover, the results of Pearson correlation analyses also indicated the existence of a significant positive correlation between student satisfaction with speaking classes and speaking skills self-efficacy beliefs. Multiple regression analyses showed that between the independent variables of the study, speaking self-efficacy beliefs was a significantly stronger predicator of Iranian EFL students' speaking skills achievement. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01