The Relationship between Students’ Self-Efficacy and Their Speaking Ability

Self-efficacy is an important factor to start any action especially for speaking in EFL learning. Among all other language skills, speaking is of an exclusive place to have effective communication, and self-efficacy is one of the pyschological aspects that can influence students’ success in mastering the skill. In this regard, this study aims to find out whether there is a relationship between self-efficacy and speaking achievement in English language courses of the eight grade students of MTsS Al-Manar. The participants of this study were 32 students from eight grade class in academic year 2015-2016. Within a correlational research model, self-efficacy questionnaire (SEQ) was applied to the participants. The collectedquantitative data were analyzed by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0 program. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data.The finding of this research showed that the result of r calculation for students’ self-efficacy and their speaking performance score is .536. Based on the table of interpretation of r value, the result of r calculated (.536) is between 0.400 and 0.600. This value shows that there is a positive correlation between the two variables. From the significance (2 tailed), the writer get the score .002. It means Sig<0.05 so the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected. The result explained that there is significant relationship between self-efficacy and speaking ability of the eight grade students of MTsS Al-Manar.