Self Efficacy Paper

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Theoretical Framework
For decades now, cognitive scientists have started to devote more attention to the social aspects of cognition. A great impulse to this kind of research has been given by the discovery that humans rely on their own motor system while observing and predicting actions performed by others. The ability to collaborate with others, to take turns, to act in a coordinated and joint manner is necessary for language and communication as well(Gianelli,2013). The socio-cognitive perspectives on reading and learning were used to provide a framework for this study. It provides a better understanding on the cognitive processes students use or do not use and how teachers can better understand their connections with their students.
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Outcome expectancy is a persons’ estimate that a certain behaviour will produce a resulting outcome (Landry2003).Outcome expectation is thus a belief about the consequences of a behaviour. Individuals with positive outcome expectations are likely to have strong self-efficacy beliefs.Self-efficacy reflects individuals' beliefs about whether they can achieve a given level of successful at a particular task (Bandura, 1989). Students with greater self-efficacy are more confident in their abilities to be successful when compared to their peers with lower self-efficacy. Self-efficacy has proven useful for understanding students' motivation and achievement in academic contexts. Higher levels of perceived self-efficacy have been associated with greater choice, persistence, and with more effective strategy use (Pajares, …show more content…

Children from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds are often challenged in both domains, relative to peers who are not economically disadvantaged.In addition, results are consistent with previous studies that show that poverty or low socioeconomic status has a negative effect on language skills and that children from low SES families are more likely to experience limited language and cognitive stimulation from the home environment. Results show that these children have smaller vocabulary sizes, less complex syntactic knowledge and less sophisticated knowledge of story structure than normative

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