THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IRANIAN EFL TEACHERS SENSE OF SELF-EFFICACY ANDTHEIR PEDAGOGICAL SUCCESS IN LANGUAGE INSTITUTES

The following study, in the first place, attempted to examine the relationship between EFL teachers' self-efficacy and their pedagogical success in Language Institutes. In the second place, the role of teachers' years of teaching experience in their selfefficacy was investigated. Finally, the relationship between teachers' age and their self-efficacy was studied. For this purpose, 89 EFL teachers were selected according to available sampling from the different Language Institutes in Mashhad, a city in the Northeast of Iran. Near the end of the term, the teachers were asked to complete the “Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale”. Simultaneously, a questionnaire which is called the “Characteristics of Successful EFL Teachers Questionnaire” was filled in by the teachers’ students (N=779). Through this questionnaire, the teachers' performance Asian EFL Journal Volume 13 Issue 2 250 was evaluated by their students. The subsequent data analysis and statistical calculations via correlation revealed that there is a significant relationship between teachers' success and their self-efficacy. Furthermore, significant correlations were found between teachers' self-efficacy, their teaching experience, and age. The conclusions and implications of the research are further discussed with reference to earlier findings.