Relationships Among Teacher-and-Peer Support,Learning Beliefs And Learning Satisfaction In EFL Learning

Improving students’ well-being is one of the important aims of education.Satisfaction,as an essential part of well-being,has a great impact on the learning process and outcomes.Teacher-and-peer support is a form of social support in the school environment.Learning beliefs are subjective judgments about learning formed by personal experience and external factors.The prior research has shown that social support can positively predict well-being.However,the research on the relationship between teacher-and-peer support and satisfaction is relatively scarce.Meanwhile,teacher-and-peer support,as well as learning satisfaction,is closely interrelated with learning beliefs.Therefore,this study conducts qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis,taking 278 Chinese college students as participants,to explore the relationships among teacher-and-peer support,learning beliefs and learning satisfaction.The major findings are as follows:(1)College students exhibit a medium-high level of teacher-and-peer support,learning beliefs and learning satisfaction in EFL learning.(2)All the dimensions of college students’ teacher-and-peer support,learning beliefs and learning satisfaction are significantly correlated with one another in EFL learning.(3)There are very significant differences in all the dimensions of college students’ learning beliefs and learning satisfaction between strong and weak groups of teacher-and-peer support in EFL learning.(4)Teacher-and-peer support has a direct positive effect on learning beliefs and learning satisfaction,and learning beliefs have a direct positive effect on satisfaction.Teacher-and-peer support also has an indirect positive effect on satisfaction through the mediating effect of learning beliefs.Based on the above findings,this study provides suggestions to advance future research and enhance teacher-and-peer support in EFL learning,which is expected to contribute to augmenting college students’ English learning efficiency and improving individuals’ well-being in EFL learning.