THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS` SELF-EFFICACY AND THEIR SPEAKING SKILL AT ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF INDRAGIRI

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The importance of conducting this research is to determine whether students` self-efficacy influence students` speaking skill. Thus, students can understand how much students believe in their ability to succeed can affect their speaking skills. There is a gap between students' self-efficacy and students' speaking skills, namely, the results of research that have been conducted, which have different and inconsistent results. The objective of this research  is to find out the correlation between students` self-efficacy and their speaking skill at English Study Program Islamic University of Indragiri. In this research, the researchers used a correlational research design. The population in this research was 2<sup>nd</sup> semester students, English Study Program Islamic University of Indragiri total of 19 students. To select the sample, the researchers used a total sampling technique consisting of 19 students. The research instruments used in this research to collect data were questionnaires and tests. The results of the data analysis show that the average students' self-efficacy is included in the moderate category, with a mean score of 65.6 in the range of 40-79. While the average students' speaking skill is included in the good category, with a mean score of 67.6 in the range of 61-80. To find out whether students' self-efficacy influences students' speaking skills, the researchers used SPSS 20 for Windows and employed the Pearson Product-Moment correlation formula to analyze data from both variables. Based on the results of the analysis using SPSS, it was obtained the significance value (2-tailed) was 0.546, which is greater than 0.05. This indicates that the null hypothesis (H<sub>0</sub>) is accepted, while the alternative hypothesis (H₁) is rejected, it means there is no significant correlation between students` self-efficacy and their speaking skills. Additionally, the correlation coefficient (r=0.152) indicates a very low correlation. Therefore, it can be concluded that self-efficacy does not correlate with the speaking skills of students of the English Study Program at Islamic University of Indragiri.

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