The Study Of Self-efficacy In Oral English Learning

This thesis objectively analyzes Li Yang's crazy oral English learning method under Bandura's self-efficacy theory together with the psychological suggestion and autosuggestion and Anderson's cognitive skills, illustrating that this method has positive significance of increasing the English learners'self-efficacy and can improve the learners' oral English skills.Bandura's self-efficacy means a person's belief or judgment on his or her capabilities to perform at any given task or behavior successfully. The main factors that determine a person's behavior include mastery experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and physiological and emotional states. These factors play an important role in people's choice-making, degree of persistence and resilience, emotions and thought patterns.Through the comprehensive analysis, this study summarizes the following methods of increasing self-efficacy in Li Yang's crazy oral English learning method:the learners' own achievement (mastery experience); the stimulation from teachers and peers' model (vicarious experience); devoted emotional states; applying suggestion and auto-suggestion to do verbal persuasion; practicing the oral English skills.This paper proposes four pieces of advice for the oral English learners:adopting different strategies to increase the learners' self-efficacy accordingly:emphasizing functions of model and emotion, looking for models actively and stimulating themselves continuously: practicing oral English skills consciously and thinking positively to avoid mechanical training; learning in varieties of situations extensively, cultivating the learners" language competence comprehensively.