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  • Speaking skill required students to interact with other orally in real time. However, speaking skill becomes more difficult in EFL students especially high school students due to unconfident feeling to speak English despite problem lack of vocabulary and pronunciation. Self-efficacy (people belief of his or her capability) contributes to effective language skill especially speaking. This research aimed to investigate whether any significant relationship between self-efficacy and studentsÂ’ speaking achievement at eleventh grade of SMAN 02 Batu This research was conducted in corelational research to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy and studentsÂ’ speaking achievement at eleventh grade of SMAN 02 Batu. This research involved 34 of eleventh grade E students at SMAN 02 Batu. A questionnaire was used to obtain studentsÂ’ self-efficacy in speaking skill in three aspects (level, generality and strength) and document analysis was employed to collect scores in studentsÂ’ speaking skill. Both data were calculated using Pearson Product Moment SPSS version 18.0. The result of this study showed that value of r = 0.631. It indicated that there was significant relationship between self-efficacy and studentsÂ’ speaking achievement at eleventh grade of SMAN 02 Batu. The alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and null (Ho) was rejected. In brief, it could be drawn that studentsÂ’ self-efficacy belief was correlated with their speaking achievement.