The Correlation Between EFL Students' Self - Efficacy and Speech Ability in Public Speaking Class at English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang

Cladonia, Zhiska (2021) The Correlation Between EFL Students' Self - Efficacy and Speech Ability in Public Speaking Class at English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

Some students feel scared when they have to perform a speech in front of the public. They feel like having a kind of tension, worry, and discomfort during the speech performance. Therefore, this research aimed to find out the relationship between self-efficacy and speech ability of English department students who had taken Public Speaking class at Universitas Negeri Padang. The type of research is a correlation study. The population in this research was second years students in the Public Speaking class. The sample took 29 students in a class who were selected using cluster random sampling. The data were collected through a questionnaire and a speech ability test through the final semester scores in the Public Speaking class. The results of the study show that self-efficacy and speech ability do not have a correlation with sig. (2-tailed) is 0.787 which indicates that the two variables have no relationship with each other. When students have high self-efficacy it is not a guarantee that the performance of the speech is high, and when students have low self-efficacy, it is not guarantee that they cannot perform speech well. It is suggested for further researchers to develop more research about self-efficacy and speech ability and look for other factors that can affect speech abilities.

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