The Effect of Teachers’ Efficacy on Students’ Motivation and Achievement in English at Elementary Level

Abstract

This study has been conducted to investigate the effect of teachers’ efficacy on the students’ motivation to learn the 
English as well as on their achievement in English. The two phase sampling was used for the current research. In 
the first phase, the cluster sampling technique was used to select the students. The data for the students’ motivation 
and achievement was collected from these selected students. In the second phase, the elementary school were 
selected. The purposive sampling technique was used for the selection of the teachers. Only those teachers have 
been selected who were teaching at elementary classes. The total 100 elementary school teachers have been selected 
including 50% males as well as 50% females. These teachers were from 4 those schools whose students have been 
selected during the cluster sampling. The data for the teachers’ efficacy was collected from these selected teachers. 
The teachers’ efficacy has been measured with the “Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale” and the students’ motivation 
to learn English has been measured with the “Students’ Motivation Scale”. The students’ achievement has been 
measured by taking the students’ GPA of English. The Pearson’s r was applied to the collected data for 
investigating the relationship between the variables followed by the Linear regression in order to find out the effect 
of independent variable on the dependent variables. On the basis of the findings, it is concluded that the teachers’ 
efficacy has a significant strong effect on the students’ motivation to learn English. Similarly, the students’ 
achievement in English is also significantly moderately effected by the teachers’ efficacy.