Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, cilt.30, sa.1, ss.252-267, 2015 (SSCI)
This study centers around the foreign language teaching efficacy (self-efficacy and outcome expectancy) beliefs of foreign language education students. In this survey, data were collected by using a scale adapted to Turkish by Sahin Kaya (2008) after transforming it into "Scale for Efficacy Beliefs on Foreign Language Teaching-Teacher Candidate Version" through confirmatory factor analysis. The study group consists of 185 students attending the 3rd and 4th years of the Department of Foreign Language Education in a state university in Ankara. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), t-Test for Independent Samples, and Kruskal Walls Test. The efficacy belief mean scores of teacher candidates regarding the total score and its sub dimensions (self-efficacy and outcome expectancy) are rather high. Teacher candidates' belief mean scores did not vary with respect to gender, major, having taken the school experience/ observation class, while the variable of teaching practice/intern ship appeared to be effective on self-efficacy beliefs. The students emphasized the importance of special area efficacy in finding themselves competent.