The Correlation between Students’ Academic Self-Efficacy and Their English Learning Achievement at SMAN 1 Pekanbaru

Abstract

The research objective was to discover whether or not there is a significant correlation between students’ academic self-efficacy and their English learning achievement at SMAN 1 Pekanbaru. The research applied quantitative approach with correlational research design,. The population of the research was 250 students of tenth grade at SMAN 1 Pekanbaru, meanwhile the samples were 70 students, who were selected using a cluster random sampling technique. The instruments employed in this study were questionnaire to measure students’ academic self-efficacy and secondary data that was taken from the exam results of students’ English achievement. To analyze the data, the researcher applied SPSS 25. The findings proved that the correlation coefficient between the two variables is 0.422 and categorized as ‘moderate’. In addition, the determinant coefficient of students’ academic self-efficacy is 0.1780. It was inferred that there is a moderately significant and positive correlation between two variables.