Author(s)

Sifan Cheng

Corresponding Author

Sifan Cheng

ABSTRACT

This study explained the effects of self-efficacy and learning motivation on students’ learning and the influencing mechanism. Specifically, self-efficacy can affect students’ learning through their emotional state and their choice of learning tasks’ difficulty. Learning motivation is also a crucial factor in learning, and different types of learning motivation play different roles in the learning process. The effects of intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation are discussed in this paper. Correspondingly, several ways to foster learning motivation and self-efficacy are analysed and provided as well. It is expected that this article can help educators and researchers to further understand the roles of self-efficacy and learning motivation in students’ learning, and also help them to adopt proper measures to improve students’ academic performance.

KEYWORDS

Self-efficacy, Learning motivation, Learning, Mechanism