Gender and Language Course Participation Differences in the University Students’ Self-Efficacy of TOEFL

Abstract

This study focuses on reporting the differences in gender and TOEFL course participation in the university students’ self-efficacy of answering TOEFL questions. The design of this study is descriptive design with the total sample of 200 university students, both English and Non-English major from two big universities in Aceh, Syiah Kuala University and Serambi Mekkah University. In collecting the data, a specially designed self-efficacy questionnaire was used to find out the university students’ personal data, including gender and TOEFL course participation as well as their level of self-efficacy. Furthermore, to analyze the data, t-test was used to find out the differences in gender (female and male) and TOEFL course participation (yes/no). The result revealed that in terms of gender, there was no statistical difference as the as p=.58 (p >.05). However, there was a statistically significant different in language course participation, in which p=.039 (p <.05).