A study of the relationship between cultural capital of senior high-school English teachers and their self-efficacy

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between cultural capital of senior high school English teachers with their self-efficacy. To this end, senior high school teachers of seven districts in Mashhad (607) were selected as the study population, out of whom 242 were chosen through a simple random sampling as the sample population using Morgan sample size table. Applied research and survey method was used in this research. Self-efficacy and cultural capital questionnaires were used for data collection procedure. SPSS and Amos software version 23 were used for statistical analysis. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. The result showed that there was a significant and positive relationship between cultural capital of senior high school English teachers with their self-efficacy in Mashhad. In other words, teachers with higher cultural capital are more efficient. As a result, they achieve more success in teaching English to students.