academic achievement and its relation with self-efficacy and academic adjustment in efl class

acquiring a second or foreign language in the context of non-native speakers could be influenced with many factors that increase or weaken students’ intake of a new language. thus, this study attempts to investigate if efl university students have self-efficacy and academic adjustment as well as the significance of self-efficacy and academic adjustment for high and low achievers. the study also seeks the relationship between self-efficacy and academic adjustment. a total of (100) female-students were chosen randomly from two iraqi universities at al-karakh side of baghdad city. spss software version (20) was run to analyze the collected data. the findings revealed that students have self-efficacy and academic adjustment; there is statistically significant difference between high and low achievers in term of self-efficacy; there is no a statistically significant difference between high and low achievers in term of academic adjustment. moreover, the study revealed that self-efficacy is negatively correlated with academic adjustment.