Investigation of high school students' stereotyped thoughts about foreign language and self-efficacy perceptions in foreign language in terms of some variables

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between stereotyped thoughts about foreign language and foreign self-efficacy perception of high school students in terms of various variables. 900 students from different high schools in Ankara, Turkey attended this study as a sample group. Data were collected through "Scale for Stereotyped Thoughts about Foreign Language" (Ünal, 2015) and "English Self-efficacy Perception" (Yanar, 2008). Descriptive statics (frequency, percentage, mean), t- Test, one way ANOVA, Kruskal Wallis, Mann Whitney U, Pearson correlation were used to analyze the data. This study was designed with comparative correlational survey design. The realibility coefficients of the stereotyped thoughts about foreign language scale is ,87 and The realibility coefficients of the foreign language self-efficacy scale is calculated as,97. According to the findings, there is no significantly difference between stereotyped thoughts about foreign language and foreign language self-efficacy of the students. There are statistically significant difference in their stereotyped thoughts about foreign language in terms of sex, high school types, maternal education status, father education status, the aim of learning English variables. There are statistically significant difference in their foreign language self-efficacy percetions in terms of high school types, grades in high school, maternal education status, father education status, the occupation of mother, income level of the family, study hours, the aim of learning English variables. However, There is no significant correlation between stereotyped thoughts about foreign language and foreign language self efficacy perceptions of students.