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 Volume 10, Issue 2 (February 2023), Pages: 50-56

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 Original Research Paper

 A study on self-efficacy of students majoring in the Chinese language at a university in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

 Author(s): 

 Hon Vu Luu *

 Affiliation(s):

 Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ho Chi Minh University of Banking, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8219-9890

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2023.02.007

 Abstract:

This article investigates the belief in self-efficacy in learning among Chinese language students in Vietnam, looking for differences in demographics, and the effect of self-efficacy beliefs on student academic performance. The results of a questionnaire survey with 142 students of a university in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam showed that: First, the self-efficacy of Vietnamese Chinese language majors has a high level; Second, there is no significant difference in the self-efficacy in learning the Chinese language between male students and female students; Third, there is no significant difference in the self-efficacy in learning the Chinese language between students from urban areas and students from rural areas; Fourth, there exists a significant difference in the self-efficacy in learning the Chinese language between first-year students and third-year students; Fifth, there is no correlation between the self-efficacy and Chinese language learning’ academic performance. The findings provide a basis for the future cultivation of Vietnamese students’ self-efficacy in the Chinese language classroom. Based on the research results, the article makes some recommendations.

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Self-efficacy, Chinese language majors, Vietnamese students

 Article History: Received 10 July 2022, Received in revised form 1 October 2022, Accepted 18 October 2022

 Acknowledgment 

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Luu HV (2023). A study on self-efficacy of students majoring in the Chinese language at a university in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 10(2): 50-56

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