The Bandura’s socio cognitive theory is the point of departure for many studies in the field of education, particularly in terms of self-efficacy. All researchers have scrutinized, established, looked at, and continue to see self-efficacy has a pillar of student achievement. Based on Bandura’s definition of conscientiousness for the human being, that characteristic “involves purposive accessing and deliberative processing of information for selecting constructing regulating, and evaluating courses of action “(Bandura, 2001, p. 3). This intentionality or agentic component, as Bandura refers to, is the choice of a “future course of action to be performed” (Bandura, 2001, p.6). For instance , students are intentionally pursuing a course of action that they hope will result in a better …show more content…
In that manner, the study of a foreign language as though it is any other course, or only a silent task with only interpretive skills will produce a different outcome from the anticipated. However, the student creating and developing language at an incredible risk to oneself, will have a different outcome from the collective. And Bandura to add that “agency “ refers to acts done on purpose” a “proactive commitment to bringing them (future actions) about” (Bandura, 2001, p.6). As an intentionality gives to an agentic perspective, the socio-cultural theory explains that people have to “make good judgment about their capabilities , anticipate the probable effects of different events and courses of action, size up socio structural opportunities and constraints (Bandura, 2001, p. 3). Bandura’s socio-cognitive theory, tries to explain human behavior in terms of a person’s behavior, personal factors, and the environment “the collective” in which the behavior is displayed. This theory which