Self Efficacy in Foreign Language Learning: a Comprehensive Study at Higher Education Preparatory Level

Learning English as a foreign language is becoming more and more important for educational, cultural, economic, political, and personal reasons. Therefore; learners, parents, teachers, researchers, and institutions are putting many efforts for improved learning environments. Being a part of these efforts, this study investigates self-efficacy, learner?s judgments of their abilities to organize and perform set of actions. The results of this study reveal that self-efficacy correlates with success in language learning and there are different sources in EFL to contribute self-efficacy beliefs of learners.