THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SELF EFFICACY AND STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT ACROSS GENDER

Efrilita, Nitha and Sofyan, Dedi and Zahrida, Zahrida (2019) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SELF EFFICACY AND STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT ACROSS GENDER. Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

This research attempted to find out the correlation between of self efficacy and students’ speaking achievement across gender. This research was carried out by employing quantitative correlation method. The population of this research was the 6th semester students of English Education Study Program of University of Bengkulu in academic year 2018/2019. The sample of this research was taken by using total sampling technique, i.e 78 students, consists of 14 male and 64 female students. The data were collected from questionnaire consisted of 28 questions related to self efficacy. To investigate the correlation between students’ self efficacy and their speaking score across gender, the researcher used SPSS version 21. The results of this study showed that the students mostly had self efficacy in speaking achievement. However, the direction in male students was negative, while in female students the direction was positive. The correlation between self efficacy and speaking achievement in female students were low correlation, where they have high self efficacy and high speaking scores, but not as high as male’ speaking score. On the other hand, although male students have low self efficacy but their speaking scores were high so the correlation between self efficacy and speaking achievement in male students was still high. In conclusion, there were female students have high of self efficacy and high speaking score. In addition, from the result, it was found that there was a correlation between self efficacy and students speaking achievement both of male and female, but the correlation was no significant. Key words: Self Efficacy, Speaking Achievement, Correlation

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