ABSTRACT This paper gives a questionnaire survey to some English major students in X University of Science and Technology by random sampling to know students' understanding and importance learning self-efficacy. It showed that there are five influential factors with self-efficacy. Learning motivation, personality, teachers' expectations, class atmosphere, family environment and campus surroundings. In return, self-efficacy also has great significance to their study and life. It finally discusses possible measures taken to improve self-efficacy on learning English according to the results of the questionnaire.
1. Introduction 1 2. Academic self-efficacy 2 2.1 Origin and definition 2 2.2 Current research 2 2.2.1 Factors self-efficacy affects 2 2.2.2 Factors affecting self-efficacy 3 3. Questionnaire survey on English major students in ZUST 6 3.1 Students' understanding and importance to learning self-efficacy 6 3.2 Influence factors with self-efficacy 7 3.2.1 Student perspective 7 3.2.2 Teacher perspective 8 3.2.3 Family perspective 10 3.2.4 Class perspective 11 3.2.5 School perspective 12 3.3 Significance to students' study and life 12 4. Measures to be taken to improve self-efficacy 13 4.1 Student perspective 13 4.2 Teacher perspective 13 4.3 Family perspective 15 4.4 Class perspective 15 4.3 School perspective 16 5. Conclusion 18 Acknowledgements 19 References 20