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EFL teachers' self-efficacy beliefs in teaching literature

Alemi, M ; Sharif University of Technology | 2013

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. Publisher: 2013
  3. Abstract:
  4. Teachers' self-efficacy beliefs within a foreign language context are helpful in terms of their own conceptualization of effective language teaching. While Foreign Language (FL) literature has established a modest presence in EFL classrooms, the teachers' self-perceptions of efficacy in literature instruction strategies have gone rather unnoticed. The objectives of this study were to discover the impact of EFL teachers' gender and teaching experience on their perceived capabilities as literature instructors. To this end, 61 EFL teachers completed Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale in Literature (Mills, 2011) and background questionnaire indicating their ability in the pedagogy of literature. The findings indicate that the mean score of teachers' beliefs about literature ranged from moderate (M=5.6) to moderately high (M=6.7) on a 9-point Likert scale. The results suggest that moderately high subscores in the EFL teachers' perceived efficacy were found for instructional strategies, classroom management, and student engagement in literary texts. They also reveal that literature instruction strategies received the highest ratings comparing to efficacy for management and engagement. To shed light on the teachers' demographic characteristics, there was nonsignificant difference between males and females in terms of their capability in teaching literature. Regardless of years of English teaching experience, EFL teachers evaluated their literature teaching effectiveness similarly to bring about desired objectives in student academic achievement. To conclude, effective teaching of literature needs to be embedded in foreign language programs. In fact, EFL teachers divide language and literature as two separate course materials. However, effective language teaching has yet to make a dent in the disconnection between language and literature instruction within EFL classrooms. An efficient EFL curriculum should bring language and literature instruction together. Accordingly, the articulation between the two may lead to fruitful outcomes
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  6. Teachers’ self-efficacy ; Student academic achievement ; Classroom management ; Literature instruction strategies ; EFL teacher effectiveness
  7. Source: International Journal of Literacies ; Volume 19, Issue 2 , 2013 , Pages 25-36 ; 2327266X (ISSN)
  8. URL: http://ijlll.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.254/prod.15