The Correlation Between EFL Students’ Self-Efficacy In Speaking and Their Speaking Performance

Abstract

This research aims to explore further about the students’ level of self-efficacy in speaking and investigates the correlation between EFL students’ self-efficacy in speaking and their speaking performance. The researcher applied quantitative method. There were 60 seventh grade students who participated in this study, they came from one of the MTSN in Magetan, East Java. This research used Speaking Skills Self-Efficacy Beliefs (SSSEB) as the questionnaire and speaking test to measure students’ speaking performance. The result reported that most of students have moderate level of self-efficacy in speaking, with details 10 students (16.67%) are categorized as low self-efficacy in speaking performance and 50 students (83.3%) are categorized as medium self-efficacy, while there was no one students categorized as high self-efficacy in their speaking performance. This study also reports that EFL students speaking self-efficacy has positive correlation with their speaking performance, (p-value= 0.000, r= .450), in which the correlation coefficient was categorized as moderate.