Evaluation of the secondary school students' listening/watching self efficiency according to various factors

Self-efficiency belief, one of the basic concepts of Social Learning Theory, is one of the factors that directly affect the learning of the individual. The self- efficiency perception that is studied on many areas is also an important factor in the development of listening skills, which are considered to be the most important of the four basic language skills. From this point of view, self- efficiency perception towards listening skills and determining which factors and level of influence of this factors are very important in terms of Turkish language education. This study aims to determine listening/watching self- efficiency belief levels of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students of middle school and to evaluate the obtained results according to factors such as class level, gender, parental education status and Turkish lesson achievement score. The research is a descriptive study on "Relational Screening Model". In the context of this model, the research was carried out in a correlational research method depending on the quantitative research. The research population consists of students studying in middle school attached to the Ministry of Education in Turkey. The sample consists of 748 students in 6th, 7th and 8th grade level determined according to the method of "simple random sampling" from different schools in İzmir province. The "Listening Self- Efficiency Scale" (Aydın et al., 2015), which has been pre-validated reliability and validity was used in the study. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed on a sample group of 240 people to obtain additional evidence of the validity and reliability of the scale. It has been verified that the scale validity is quite high according to the obtained analysis results. As a result of the research, the listening self-efficiency mean of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students in the sample were found to be at a good level ( =3.87). When examined by class level; 6th grade students had the highest listening self- efficiency, 8th grade students had the lowest listening self efficiency. According to gender, female students had more listening self- efficiency than male students. According to level of parental education, as the level of parental education increases, the self- efficiency of listening increases. It has been found that there is a positive correlation between the achievement score and listening self-efficiency according to the achievement points of Turkish lessons of the previous year. Keywords: Listening, Watching, Listening Skills, Self Efficiency, Listening Self Efficiency, Listening Education.