The Correlation Between EFL College Students’ Self-Efficacy and Their Listening Anxiety at Intermediate Listening Class

Abstract

Self-efficacy is important for improving emotional states and to correct faulty self-beliefs and habits of thinking, academic skills and self-regulatory practices improvement. Anxiety prevents EFL learners in improving their language learning skills. This research inspect the self-efficacy and whether it is in correlation with their listening anxiety experienced by EFL college learners. The data of the research was obtained from all of the 2019 learners and it was collected by using two instruments: Foreign Language Listening Anxiety Questionnaire (FLLAQ) and Listening Self-efficacy Beliefs Questionnaire (LSBQ). This research was conducted by using random sampling. The result showed there was a positive correlation between EFL learners' listening self-efficacy and their listening anxiety (r = 0.364) and average learners' listening anxiety and self-efficacy level stand in the medium level.