BOUHADAD, FaridOUKACI, Nawal2023-02-022023-02-022022Didactics of Foreign Languageshttps://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/1954162p. ; Ill. en coul. ; 30cm.+(cd)The present dissertation investigates students’ self-confidence during the COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to determine whether and how the pandemic of COVID-19 influenced students’ self-confidence and find out how students’ self-confidence was enhanced during this critical period. In order to reach these aims, a study was conducted in the department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou that involved seventy-seven third-year students and four teachers. To collect data, a questionnaire was administered to the students and email interviews were conducted with the teachers. The obtained data were analysed relying on quantitative and qualitative methods with reference to Bandura’s Self-efficacy Theory (1994). The results showed that the COVID-19 pandemic did not affect students’ self-confidence levels. Students’ confidence levels were the same as to before the Coronavirus disease outbreak. These results may be explained by the fact that both teachers and students relied on specific techniques to boost students’ self-confidence.enCOVID-19, Lockdown, Pandemic, Self-confidence, Self-efficacy.Thesis