A debate based program for developing self-efficacy among EFL student teachers at faculties of education

Abstract EN

The current study aimed at developing self- efficacy of EFL student teachers at faculties of education through using a debate based program.

the participants of the study consisted of fourth year student teachers enrolled in the English department at the faculty of education, Arish university (n= 35).

the study followed the one group pre-posttest design.

the instruments used in the current study included: a self-efficacy scale and a debate based program.

the researcher adopted Demir's (2017) self-efficacy scale and Bruning, Kauffman, Dempsey, and Zumbrunn's (2013) self-efficacy scale to measure students' writing and speaking self- efficacy for fourth year students enrolled in English department at Arish faculty of education.

the scale consisted of 41 sentence and all answered on a five point Likert scale; strongly agree= 5, agree= 4, I don't know= 3, disagree= 2, and strongly disagree= 1.

the pre-tests were administered to the participants before the intervention, and then they were taught through using the debate program.

after the implementation, post-tests were administered to the participants.

it was revealed that debate based program is effective in developing self-efficacy of EFL fourth year student teachers.