The Relationship between Self-Efficacy and Students’ Speaking Skill of the Eight Grade Students of SMPN 106 Jakarta in the 2021/2022 Academic Year

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AMELIA MUSTIKAILAH. NIM: 1701055071. The Relationship between Self-Efficacy and Students’ Speaking Skill of the Eight Grade Students of SMPN 106 Jakarta in the 2021/2022 Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta, The Study Programm of English Education, The School of Teachers Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka Jakarta 2021.
The objective of the research is to find the empirical evidence of whether or not there is a significant relationship between self-efficacy and speaking skill of the eight grade students of SMPN 106 Jakarta in the 2021/2022 academic year. The writer used the quantitative survey method by using correlation technique. The population of this research was the eight grade students of SMPN 106 Jakarta, and the writer only took 1 class (87 class) consisting of 32 students for the sample of the research. The instruments used for this research were the questionnaire of self-efficacy and the test of speaking skill. The scores of the the two variables were calculated by using the formula of Pearson’s Product Moment.
The finding of the analysis and statistical calculation showed that r observed is 0.384 and r table is 0.35 in the significant level of 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df = n- 2) is around 30. As a result, r observed is higher than r table. Therefore, Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. Meanwhile, by applying t-test, it was found that t observed is 2.27 and t table is 1.69. So, Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between self-efficacy and students’ speaking skill of the eight grade students of SMPN 106 Jakarta in the 2021/2022 academic year.