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    Factors Affecting Academics’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs for Oral Communication in a Foreign Language
    (2020) Özer, Ömer; Uzun, N. Bilge
    The use of a foreign language in knowledge production and dissemination is crucially important to academics. Despite this, academics’ self-efficacy belief in their foreign-language oral production is under-researched with little data available for cross-cultural comparisons. This study therefore examined faculty members’ self-efficacy beliefs for foreign-language oral communication by several background variables. A correlational research method was employed: a diverse sample of faculty members completedanonlineorpaperquestionnaireassessingtheirself-efficacyinforeign-languageoralcommunication. The results revealed no significant differences for the gender, age or work experience of the respondents. It was found that faculty members obtained significantly higher scores on the duration of their foreign-language study, previous experience in teaching in a foreign language, experience of living abroad and academic rank. On the whole, the results suggest that there is a significant association between formal and informal foreign-language experience and self-efficacy.
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    Reliability and Validity of a Self-efficacy Instrument for Academics' Oral Communication in a Foreign Language
    (Deomed Publ, Istanbul, 2019) Ozer, Omer; Cakir, Ozler; Uzun, N. Bilge
    The purpose of this study is to develop a reliable and valid self-efficacy scale which intends to measure academics' self-efficacy beliefs in oral communication in a foreign language. The data in this study were collected from 395 academics working in state and foundation universities in Turkey. The 29 items in the scale trial form were rated on a 10-point Likert scale. After ensuring that the assumptions were met, an exploratory factor analysis was performed, which indicated a structure with one factor and 19 items. The 19 items in one dimension explained 75.709% of the variance in academics' self-efficacy beliefs in oral communication in a foreign language. The overall internal consistency reliability of the scale was high, with a Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of .982. The results indicate that our self-efficacy instrument is reliable and valid for measuring academics' oral communication self-efficacy beliefs in a foreign language.