The Relationship between Students’ Self-Efficacy and Their Writing Ability in Descriptive Text at the Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 1 Parungpanjang in 2020/2021 Academic Year

dian chaeroni; dr. roslaini, m.hum;

YUSTIKA WULANDARI: 1601055038. “The Relationship between Students’ Self-Efficacy and Their Writing Ability in Descriptive Text at the Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 1 Parungpanjang in 2020/2021 Academic Year”. A Paper. Jakarta: The Study Program of English Education The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammdiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, Jakarta, 2020.
The objective of the study was to find out the relationship between students’ self-efficacy and their writing ability in descriptive text at the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Parungpanjang in 2020/2021 academic year. The study, which was held on August 18th – 22nd August, 2020 at SMAN 1 Parungpanjang, used correlational method. The participants of the study were the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Parungpanjang in the 2020/2021 academic year. The writer took one class of eleventh grade students consisting of 35 students as the sample using purposive sampling technique. In taking data, the writer asked the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Parungpanjang wrote a descriptive text. After getting the data, the writer analysed them in two steps. First, the data were analyzed using pre-requisite test; they were normality test, regression test, and linearity test. Based on the normality test, the data were normally distributed and linear, and the result of regression test was Y̅ = 57,38 + 0,35 𝑥i. Afterward, the writer tried to find the correlation between students’ self-efficacy and their writing ability in descriptive text. After calculation, the writer found the correlation coefficient (r) result between students’ self-efficacy and their writing ability in descriptive text was 0,544. Then, the writer compared r result to the interpretation of correlation table and showed that there was positive correlation. For the hypothesis testing, the writer used t-test as the final result which was 3,7 and compared it with t-table by using a significance of 5% which was 0,33. The writer got t-test > t-table (3,7 > 0,33) which means Hi was accepted. Thus, it proved that self-efficacy correlated with students’ writing ability in descriptive text. Self-efficacy can encourage and support students to write descriptive text in English.