Prospective EFL teachers’ locus of control and academic self-efficacy in Turkish context

Year 2018, Volume: 14 Issue: 3, 308 - 324, 15.09.2018

Özkan Kırmızı , Arif Sarıçoban

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Prospective EFL teachers’ locus of control and academic self-efficacy in Turkish context
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Author (Last name, First name)	Kırmızı, ÖZkan
Affiliated institution (University)	Karabük University
Country	Turkey
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Department & Rank	English Language Teaching
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Author (Last name, First name)	Sarıçoban, Arif
Affiliated institution (University)	Selçuk University
Country	Turkey
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Keywords

locus of control, academic self-efficacy, EFL

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