A Study On English Learning Self-efficacy Of High School Students With Learning Difficulties

Self-efficacy refers to the individual of their ability to perform a behavior of speculation and judgment, which was proposed by Albert Bandura for the first time,a psychologist from Stanford University, in the 1970 s. The theory describes that people can bring the effect that produces the result of the behavior expectations,which could be more positive initiative to participate in the activities. Therefore,learners’ positive self-efficacy can produce beneficial effect on their learning results.English is the required course in high school,which has always attached great importance to the education of high school English discipline, hoping to improve high school students to learn English by using the method of specific performance.Learning difficulties are a special group in school, who have their own characteristics, especially in the aspect of subjective sense of themselves. However,Chinese is our mother tongue for Chinese students, the vast majority of people seldom use English to communicate, learn or work.And the dramatic differences English and Chinese make the low efficiency of Chinese high school students of English, which leads to a decline in their English learning self-efficacy. In reality, a lot of students with normal intelligence fall behind the others in the same grade, and they are called Learning Difficulties today. The high school students will fear to learn and have no confidence or interest in learning English if their English learning self-efficacy is low.And they will not have learning motivation, they will have poor performance in English. The learning difficulties form a special group in the school,and they have their own remarkable characteristics, especially in the aspect of subjective sense of themselves,and they had not reached the level of basic English andits curriculum standard request. The lack of self-efficacy directly cause the learning difficulties’ learning boring, low efficiency, low effect, but also affect the completion of tasks in teaching and the improvement of teaching quality. In English teaching, we often encounter poor learning ability in English, who didn’t have the confidence and interest in English learning. Therefore, it is the key to help them regain confidence and improve academic performance. By helping the students with learning difficulties, we can help them have the right attitude towards learning English, and make them be confident in learning English.This investigation mainly relies on the relevant theories of foreign scholars Bandura and Kirk, mainly include the self-efficacy theory. In high school, students with learning difficulties as the research object, using the middle school students’ English learning self-efficacy questionnaire investigation, data collection, research survey and analysis of the academic performance of students with learning difficulties of English and English learning self-efficacy, the relationship between the students’ English learning self-efficacy and improvement of high school English teaching for the future. This investigation mainly studies the following two questions :(1)What’s the learning self-efficacy status of students with learning difficulties of English in high school ?(2)What’s the relationship between English self-efficacy with students of different grades, gender, and grade?The results indicate :(1)The English self-efficacy of student with difficulties of English in high school is generally low;(2)There’s significant differences between self-efficacy and their academic achievement, but no significant relationship between gender and different grade.This paper consists of five parts. The first chapter briefly introduces the research the importance of the self-efficacy of the students with learning difficulties of English,purpose and significance of this study, and the structure of the article. The second chapter introduces the definition of the English learning self-efficacy and student with learning difficulties and the related research home and abroad. The third chapter introduces the research questions, research objects, tools, and data collection. The fourth chapter is the analysis of the paper survey data, and the basis of the findingwere discussed and summarized. The fifth chapter finally summarizes and sums up the main findings, and points out the limitation of the thesis and some Suggestions.