Ahmadreza Eghtesadi Roudi - Assistant Professor of ELT, Farhangian University of Mashhad
Atefeh Jeddi - MA in ELT, Islamic Azad University, Torbat-e-Heidarieh, Iran

Self-efficacy is an important characteristic of teachers, which has received widespread attention in the recent literature on teacher education. It has been found to variously influence teachers and their learners. The purpose of this study was particularly to investigate the effect of teachers‘ self-efficacy beliefs on their pedagogical success from their students‘ point of view. To this end, Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale was administered to 100 teachers. For each teacher, six students were also asked to complete the Characteristics of Successful Iranian EFL Teachers Questionnaire. The data were analyzed through multiple regression and the results showed that among sub-constructs of self-efficacy, efficacy for instructional strategies could best predict teachers‘ pedagogical success. The results of this study imply the importance of self-efficacy of teachers especially for devising and using instructional strategies. Therefore, teachers need to improve their self-efficacy perceptions if they want to be viewed as more successful by their students, and teacher educators also should pay more attention to self-efficacy issues in pre-service and in-service training programs.

self-efficacy, pedagogical success, EFL teachers, teacher training