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大学生英语学习自我效能感与学习者自主相关性研究
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摘要
自从二十世纪八十年代以来,自主学习一直是教育学和心理学共同关注的一个重要问题。在教育学领域,研究者把培养自主学习能力作为一项重要的教育目标。在心理学领域,研究者则侧重考察影响学生自主学习的各种因素,以及自主学习发生发展的内在心理机制。美国心理学家班杜拉在他的认知理论中强调,影响自主学习的因素很多,大致可分为内部因素,行为因素和环境因素三类。制约自主学习的内部因素主要包括自我效能感,学习策略,目标设置和情感等,其中自我效能感是影响自主学习的两个关键变量之一。自我效能感通过认知过程,动机过程,情绪反应和选择过程影响自主学习。
     鉴于自我效能感在英语自主学习中的重要作用,本文围绕以下三个研究问题探讨自我效能感与英语自主学习的关系:1)大学生英语学习自我效能感的现状如何?2)
     大学生自主性英语学习情况如何?3)英语学习自我效能感与自主学习之间关系如何?为使调查结果更全面,本研究把被调查的学生分为三组:英语高水平组,中等水平组和低水平组,并通过问卷的方式对他们进行了调查。本研究的受试来自华中科技大学的大二年级学生(高水平组55人,中等水平组94人,低水平组71人)调查结果表明:1)大学生英语学习的自我效能感普遍较低。在一般效能感方面,三组学生对英语学习都有较积极的认识;而在具体效能感方面,高水平学生比其它两组学生有更高的自我效能感,尤其是阅读与写作;2)大学生对英语自主学习持肯定的态度,然而他们目前的自主学习能力却并不令人满意;3)英语自我效能感和英语自主学习之间存在正相关关系。
     基于以上调查结果,作者提出了一些方法以帮助提高大学生的英语自我效能感和自主学习。
Ever since its birth in the 1980s, Learner Autonomy(LA) is the focus of attention both in the field of pedagogy and psychology. The cultivation of LA is regarded as the most important aim by the researchers of pedagogy, while researchers of psychology paid much more attention in the factors that influence LA and on the mental mechanism concerning LA. American psychologist Bandura in his social cognitive theory makes several assumptions about the performance of behaviors and learner autonomy (or self-regulated learning). These assumptions address reciprocal interactions among person, behaviors and environments. Personal factors mainly include self-efficacy, learning strategies, goal setting, attribution, etc. Self-efficacy, as one of the two types of motivators (another is attribution), influences learner autonomy greatly through cognitive, motivational, affective and decisional processes.
     In view of the crucial roles self-efficacy played in learner autonomy, the present study intends to investigate the relationship between the two by answering the following three research questions: 1) What is the overall situation of college students’self-efficacy in English learning? 2) What is the overall situation of college students’learner autonomy in English learning? 3)What is the relationship between college students’self-efficacy in English learning and learner autonomy? In order to answer these questions clearly, the present study classified the students into three different groups, that is, students with higher, average and lower English proficiency levels through two questionnaires. The subjects of this study are 220 sophomores (L1=71;L2=94;L3=55) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
     The results of the study indicated that: First, College students’self-efficacy in English learning is low. As for general self-efficacy, all the students of three levels basically hold a higher self-efficacy in their English learning than specific ones. And for specific self-efficacy, L3 students do better than the other two groups of students in most specific sections and they always hold a more positive views on their abilities concerning specific English learning tasks, especially on reading and writing tasks, than L1 and L2 students do. Second, college students have positive attitudes toward autonomous English learning, however, their current ability of learner autonomy is not so satisfactory. Third, college students’English self-efficacy is positively correlated with their English learner autonomy.
     In the light of the previous research, the present study proposes some strategies to enhance college students’self-efficacy and learner autonomy.
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