The Influence of Students’ Writing Self- Efficacy towards Their Ability in Writing Recount Text at The Tenth Grade Students of SMA N 3 Purworejo in The Academic Year of 2016/2017

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine the influence of students’ writing self-efficacy on their ability in writing recount text. Self- efficacy is one of factors that influences the success of second language acquisition. Since self- efficacy is domain specific, the researcher focuses on students’ writing self-efficacy. Recount text becomes kinds of text that was chosen by the researcher because it is a genre of text taught at the tenth grade students of SMA N 3 Purworejo in the first semester. This research belongs to quantitative research and the research design is correlational research. The researcher uses questionnaire to know students’ writing self-efficacy. The questionnaire consists of 30 items and in each item, student should circle the level of their confidence in 0-100 scale. To measure students’ ability in writing recount text, the researcher conducted assessment of students’ recount text writing. The number of population in this research is 124 students and the researcher takes 58 studdents to be research sample. The data collected from questionnaire and writing assessment are calculated to get the coefficient correlation and regression formula to know how far students’ writing self-efficacy influences the students’ ability in writing recount text. The calculation is done by both manual computation and SPSS 16.00 version. From the computation of students’ writing self-efficacy and students’ recount text writing, the researcher gets four findings. First, the mean of students’ writing self-efficacy score is 63,74 which can be categorized as high self-efficacy. Second, the mean of students’ recount text writing score is 79,79, and it can be categorized as good. Third, there is correlation between students’ writing self-efficacy and students’ ability in writing recount text which the coefficient correlation is 0,676 and belongs to high correlation. Fourth, there is positive influence of students’ writing selfefficacy towards students’ ability in writing recount text. Fourth, students’ ability in writing recount text is influenced 45,7% by students’ writing self-efficacy and the rest, 54,3% is influenced by another factors.