THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SELF EFFICACY BELIEFS AND STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENTS AT EIGHT GRADE OF SMP NEGERI 1 MESUJI IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022

ABSTRACT In the process of learning, speaking is crucial skill to be mastered. It is as a way to get many communication, especially for learners. This research aims to find out the correlation and to define the significance of the correlation between students’ self efficacy and their speaking achievements at eight grade of SMP Negeri 1 Mesuji in the academic year 2021/2022. The participants of this research are 58 students. The research methodology used in this research is quantitative research design specifically correlational research method. The population of this research was the eight grade of SMP Negeri 1 Mesuji. The sample were two classes ; VIII�3 and VIII�4 , consisting of 58 students from those two class. To collect the data of students’ self efficacy, there were 40 items of questionnaire. The 40 items were tried out and got 20 items were valid and reliable with 3 aspects: level, generality and streght. For the speaking achievements is used secondary data which the researcher ask to the English teacher about score speaking students in the class. The data were analysed by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) 23.0 program. The researcher used Pearson product moment correlation coefficient to find out the correlation result. After doing the hypothetical test, based on the data analysis computed by SPSS, it was obtained that Sig (P-value is 0.029 ≤ α = 0.05, it means Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. Based on this reseach, there is correlation between self efficacy beliefs and students’ speaking achievements at eight grade of SMP Negeri 1 Mesuji in the academic year 2021/2022