1). INTRODUCTION In adult education, The concept of central learning theory is self-directed learning. He (1985) said that because the concept is so central to what adult education is all about, self-directed learning has been one of the field's high-interest topics for more than a decade (Mezirow, 1988). Many people like researchers theorists and so on have all asked the pistons: what is self-directed learning? What kinds of people are engaged in it? How can we properly provide …showed first 75 words of 7446 total…

…showed last 75 words of 7446 total…something important for themselves in this changing society, if they do not have high self-efficacy, they may not achieve their goals which they want to reach. As for adult learners and educators, people would try to keep the great balance between self-directedness and self-efficacy to achieve the highest goal by themselves. In the future research, we have to focus on the relationship between self-directedness and self-efficacy to improve adult learners¡® ability in adult education parts.