I’ve read an article by famous educator Hideo Kageyama where he emphasized the importance of student preparation for class. What are your stories of “self-efficacy” in your classroom? Listening to how he speaks English, she feels motivated and practices at home using her CDs, which shows in her improved fluency in the following lesson. I now see how self-efficacy plays out in my classroom and how it supports language learning: When a student starts singing as soon as I play a song, another student says to him, “Wow, how can you learn English songs so quickly? You must be really talented!” At other times, a student lacking in the confidence to speak up shadows her friend who is more vocal than most. I found it’s a spot-on representation of my purposes and my approaches in teaching English. When I looked it up later I was surprised to find out that it means something I had kept close to my heart when teaching English for a long time. To be honest, I wasn’t at all familiar with the phrase “self-efficacy” before I heard it a couple of times at the JALT (The Japanese Association for Language Teaching) conference held in Tsukuba in 2017. There are four ways to improving one’s sense of self-efficacy and gain more self-confidence that you can do something: make small successes observe someone else who has a good sense of self-efficacy as your role model hear words of encouragement that bolster your belief in your self-efficacy be in a situation where it can easily improve. “Self-efficacy” means how confident you feel when you’re tackling a challenge.
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