THE CORRELATION BETWEEN WRITING SELF-EFFICACY AND WRITING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SIXTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF FKIP UNSRI
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- The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not: (1) there was a significant correlation between the students’ writing self-efficacy and their writing achievement and a contribution of the students’ writing self-efficacy to their writing achievement, and (2) there was a significant correlation between each of the students’ writing self-efficacy category and their writing achievement and a contribution of each of the students’ writing self-efficacy category to their writing achievement. The samples of this study were 45 sixth semester students of English Education Study Program of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of Sriwijaya University from Indralaya class in academic year 2015/2016 which was chosen by using purposive sampling from 93 of the total populations. This study applied a correlation method. The data were collected through writing self-efficacy scale questionnaire and writing test, and then scored by three raters. Pearson Product Moment Correlation of SPSS version 22 was used in analyzing the data. The results showed that (1) there was a fair significant negative correlation between the students’ writing self-efficacy and their writing achievement (r= -0.510 and p-value= 0.000), and the contribution was 26%, and (2) there was a weak significant negative correlation between the students’ writing self-efficacy of moderate category and their writing achievement (r= -0.348 and p-value= 0.035), and the contribution was 12.1%. In conclusion, the students’ writing self-efficacy was significantly correlated to their writing achievement.