Socio-Demographic Predictors of EFL Teacher Efficacy

dc.creator	Şenay YAVUZ
dc.date	2007-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:22:17Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:22:17Z
dc.identifier	1305-578X
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8ca2b84a35244b0588aedd3813a9f4b2
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29368
dc.description	Research on teachers’ beliefs and their impact on teacher cognition has been arelevant topic for educational inquiry for some decades. Teachers’ actions are tied totheir beliefs, perceptions, assumptions and motivation levels. Thus, research on teachers’beliefs is crucial in determining the way teachers understand and organize instruction.One important belief that appears to be an important influence on teacher and studentoutcomes is teacher efficacy. In accordance with this view and due to the increasingdemand for English as a foreign language education, the present study aimed to assessEFL teachers’ efficacy level and explore the socio-demographic predictors of teacherefficacy in an EFL setting, i.e., Turkey. 226 EFL teachers working at the preparatoryschools of public and private universities in Istanbul participated in this study. Data werecollected by means of quantitative methods; i.e., the Ohio State Teacher Efficacy Scale(adapted from Tschannen-Moran & Hoy, 2001) and the School-Level EnvironmentQuestionnaire (Fisher & Fraser, 1990).Data collected by means of these instruments weresubmitted to correlation and regression analysis and independent samples t-tests. Resultsof the study showed that the number of professional activities teachers were involved in,average number of students in teachers’ classes, working position, type of institution, andgender were the socio-demographic factors that predicted variations in EFL teachers’efficacy in this study.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Turkish
dc.publisher	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
dc.relation	http://www.jlls.org/Issues/Volume%203/No.2/syavuz.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1305-578X
dc.source	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 304-324 (2007)
dc.subject	teacher efficacy
dc.subject	institutional factors
dc.subject	student support
dc.subject	innovation
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Socio-Demographic Predictors of EFL Teacher Efficacy
dc.type	article