THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ SELFEFFICACY AND THEIR SPEAKING FLUENCY AT THE SECOND YEAR OF STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 3 PEKANBARU

Abstrak / Ringkasan

The students with high self-efficacy will be able to speak fluently since
fluency is one of characteristics of good speaking. However, based on the
researcher’s preliminary research, it was found that some of students who had
characteristics of good self-efficacy in speaking still could not speak English
fluently, otherwise there were some students who had good fluency in speaking
English showed the characteristics of low self-efficacy. Therefore, this research was
aimed to find out the correlation between students’ self-efficacy and their speaking
fluency in story telling at The Second Year of Senior High School 3 Pekanbaru.
This research is a correlational research, which the researcher distributed
questionnaires to the respondent to assess students’ self-efficacy. Besides, in
assessing students’ speaking fluency, the researcher conducted oral test to the
students by asking them to do story-telling and the score was evaluated by two
raters. The population of the research was 311 students. Then, in choosing the
sample the researcher used simple random sampling and took 32 students. The
researcher used Pearson product moment correlation coefficient through SPSS
22.00 to analyze the data. The result of this research shows that sig.
(2-tailed) value is 0.001. It can be stated that 0.001<0.05. It means that null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected while the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. The value of correlation coefficient (r) is 0.566. In conclusion, there is a significant positive correlation between students’ self-efficacy in speaking and their speaking fluency. The
researcher also found that 32.04% self-efficacy of the second year students at Senior
High School 3 Pekanbaru can influence their speaking fluency. Then, the other
67.96% was influenced by other factors.

Key words: Correlation, Self-efficacy, Speaking Fluency

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