The Correlation between EFL Students’ Listening Self-efficacy and Their Listening Performance

Abstract

Listening skill, compared to other skills is the most basic skill due to its ability to intertwine with four other skills. However, many EFL students have difficulties in improving their listening performance. One of the factors is Self-efficacy in Listening. Many studies have been conducted about Self-efficacy recently. This study focused more on listening Self-efficacy in Senior High School students. This study was conducted to find the correlation between EFL students’ listening self-efficacy with their listening performance in senior high school levels. This research was conducted quantitatively to 140 tenth graders in one of a state senior high school in Lamongan. This research used two instruments to find out the data of this study. Those are Practice Test for the TOEFL® Junior™ Standard Test to determine the listening performance of the participants and a self-developed Listening Self-efficacy questionnaire with small adaptation from various similar questionnaire. This questionnaire consists of 30 questions in a form of five-points Likert Scale. Then, Spearman Rank Correlation was used to find the relationship between EFL Students’ Listening Self-efficacy and their listening performance based on the results from the listening test. The result of this study showed that there was no significant correlation between each groups of listening self-efficacy with their listening performance (r: -0.038). Based on the result, it can be concluded that listening self-efficacy did not have any correlation with EFL Students’ listening performance in Senior High School levels.

Keywords: Listening Performance, Self-efficacy