The Relationship between self-efficacy and Listening Comprehension among Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between self -efficacy and listening comprehension among Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To this end, after conducting Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency (MTELP), 84 Iranian EFL learners at intermediate levels of English language proficiency were selected. Then, a self –efficacy questionnaire was employed to measure the learners’ self –efficacy; it was developed by Rahimi and Abedini (2009), with 20 Likert-scale items. And a listening comprehension test (TOEFL Listening: Lecture (1) (2015)) with ten multiple-choice questions was used to measure the learners’ media literacy and their level of listening comprehension ability. To test the possible correlation between self-efficacy and the learners’ listening comprehension, the Pearson correlation coefficient was used. The findings revealed that there was a positive relationship between self-efficacy and listening comprehension.