THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ LISTENING SELF-EFFICACY AND THEIR LISTENING COMPREHENSION (A Correlational Study on Eight Semester English Education Study Program Students of Universitas Bengkulu)

The aim of this research was to find out the correlation of students’ listening self-efficacy and their listening comprehension. This research was a correlational
research. The population of this research was the Eighth Semester English
Education Study Program Students of Universitas Bengkulu in the 2018/2019.
The sample was taken by using total sampling of the students who has TOEFL
score below 450. There were 40 students as the sample from two classes. There
were two research instruments used in this research, listening test and self-efficacy questionnaire. Based on the data analysis, it was found that the r-obtained
was 0.20. It means that the correlation between the students’ self-efficacy and
their listening comprehension was low. As a consequence, the null hypothesis
(H0) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (H1) was accepted. Since the r-obtained (0.20) was lower than the r-table(0.3125), the correlation was not really
significant. From the research finding, it can be concluded that there was a low
correlation between self-efficacy concerning listening skill and listening
comprehension. It means that self-efficacy was not a really dominant factor that
affects listening comprehension of the eighth semester students of English
education Study Program of Universitas Bengkulu.
Key Words : Self-Efficacy, Listening Comprehension