Abstract:
The objectives of this research are (1) to describe self-efficacy at the
fourth semester students English Education Program of Purworejo
Muhammadiyah University in the academic year of 2015/2016, (2) to reveal
speaking ability at the fourth semester students English Education Program of
Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the academic year of 2015/2016, (3) to
find out whether there is any positive and significant correlation between selfefficacy
and speaking ability at the fourth semester students English Education
Program of Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the academic year of
2015/2016.
This study belongs to correlational design. The researcher take 39 students
among the population 124 at the fourth semester students English Education
Program of Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the academic year of
2015/2016 as sample of this research.The researcher uses questionnaire and
documentation as the instruments. Dealing with the research instrument of
collecting the data, the researcher makes some steps: (1) preparing the research
instrument, (2) giving the questionnaire to the students, (3) collecting the the data
of their result of questionnaire, (4) doing documentation for asking the result of
their mid term test. In getting the data, the researcher analyzed the data by using
descriptive statistics analysis (mean, median, mode, range, variance, SD) and
inferential analysis (test of normality, test of linearity, test of hypothesis).
The researcher calculates both manually and using SPSS version 16.0.
Based on the computation, the researcher find three things. First, the mean of
students’ self-efficacy is 74.22 and it is categorized as high. Second, the mean of
students’ speaking ability is 74.91 and it is categorized as high too. Third, there is
a positive and significance correlation between students’ self-efficacy and their
speaking ability, the value of r is 0.846>0.329. The finding shown above can be
proved from the number of samples (N=39) and the level of significance (5%), the
result of the computation done both manually and by SPSS is 0.846. Based on the
vaalue of r product moment that is 0.846>0.329 and it is categorized as a very
high correlation. It means that there is very high correlation between students’
self-efficacy and their speaking ability.
