@article{2017,title={EXPLORING SELF-EFFICACY AS A PREDICTOR OF L2 LEARNERS’ WRITING PROFICIENCY},abstractNode={This article reports a study investigating the existence of any statistically significant correlation between self-efficacy and L2 learner’s writing proficiency. Initially, the participants were 100 female L2 learners at Islamic Azad university of Damavand in Iran, but only 78 of them provided valid data. The participants completed self-efficacy questionnaires and received two topics in order to write two essays, one of which was on an informative topic and the other on a comparative topic. Two rubrics, one for writing to inform and the other for writing to compare and contrast, were used to evaluating the learners’ skill in those writing tasks. In addition, there were self-efficacy questionnaires. Then the data were submitted to statistical analyses. Based on the Pearson correlation, we found that there was a significant correlation between self-efficacy and L2 learners’ informative and comparative writing; moreover, regression analyses revealed self-efficacy can be used as a predictor of L2 learners’ writing proficiency. The findings of the study have implications for L2 teaching and assessment.},author={Somaiyeh MAHMOUDI-& Reza BARZEGAR},year={2017},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}