THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ SELF-EFFICACY AND THEIR WRITING PROFICIENCY
A THESIS
Submitted to English Education Department as a Partial fulfillment of the Requirement for S. Pd Degree
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MEILINA LISA PURNAMASARI 1301050101
ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOKERTO
DEDICACTION
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Purwokerto, 12𝑛𝑑 August 2017
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Assalamu’alaikum Wr.Wb.
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the Prophet Muhammad, the noblest creature ever. All praises be Alloh S.W.T
who always gives his blessing upon the writer in her life and enabled her to
accomplish this thesis entitle “The Correlation between Students’ Self-Efficacy
and Their Writing Proficiency”. This thesis is submitted to fulfil one of the
requirements to get S.Pd Degree in English Education Study Program, Teacher
Training and Education Faculty, Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto. The
writer would like to express her great special appreciation to:
1. Drs. H. Syamsuhadi Irsyad, S.H., M.H., the Rector of Muhammadiyah
University of Purwokerto.
2. Drs. Pudiyono, M.Hum., the Dean of Teacher Training and Education
Faculty who has given the permission to write this thesis.
3. Aulia Nisa Khusnia, S.S., M.A., the Head of English Education Department
who has given opportunity and agreement to conduct this study.
4. Mrs Listiani, M.Pd. for the valuable assistance and inspiration to the
completion of this bachelor thesis.
5. All lecturers of English Education Department who has inspired me with
their guidance and patience during my study in this university.
6. Mr Feisal Aziez, M. Pd who gave me permission to conduct the research in
essay writing class.
7. The fourth semester students of essay writing class of English Education
Finally, this graduating paper is expected to be able to provide knowledge
and information for the readers especially in educational field. The writer
appreciates any opinions and suggestions for the improvement of this thesis.
Wassalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb.
Purwokerto, 12𝑛𝑑 August 2017
Writer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
B. Self-Efficacy and Educational Development ... 16
1. Self-Efficacy and Educational Regulation ... 18
2. Self-Efficacy and Related Contructs in Educational Development. 21 C. Writing ... 26
1. The Definition of Writing ... 26
2. The Process of Writing ... 27
4. The Elements of Writing ... 30
H. The Role of Self-Efficacy in Writing Proficiency ... 38
I. The Dimensions of Self-Efficacy for Writing ... 39
J. Previous Research ... 41
K. Basic Assumption ... 43
L. Hyphoteses ... 44
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ... 45
1. Questionnaire Result ... 61
2. Test Result ... 65
3. Product Moment Correlation ... 66
4. Interview Result ... 67
B. Discussion ... 94
1. The Correlation between Students’ Self-Efficacy and Their Writing Proficiency ... 94
2. The Factors Influencing High and Low Self-Efficacy Students ... 95
CHAPTER V ... 113
A. Conclusion ... 113
B. Suggestion ... 114
REFFERENCES
LIST OF TABLES
Table 3.1 The Description of the Scale in Each Statement ... 49
Table 3.2 The Indicators of Writing Self-Efficacy Questionnaire ... 49
Table 3.3 The Factors Influence High and Low Self-Efficacy Students . 50
Table 3.4 The Guidance to Determine Students’ Self-Efficacy ... 54
Table 3.5 Rubric Scale of Writing ... 56
Table 3.6 How To Score Students’ Writing ... 58
Table 3.7 The Guidance for Giving Interpretation of Correlation
Coefficient ... 60
LIST OF APPENDIXES
Appendix A ...
Appendix B ...
Appendix C ...
Appendix D ...
Appendix E ...
Appendix F ...
Appendix G ...
Appendix H ...
Appendix I ...
Appendix J ...
ABSTRACT
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ SELF-EFFICACY AND
THEIR WRITING PROFICIENCY
Meilina Lisa Purnamasari 1301050101
This study examined the correlation between students’ self-efficacy and their
writing proficiency and identified what factors of self-efficacy influenced high and low self-efficacy students. This research belonged to correlational survey study. The participant of this study was the fourth semester students of essay writing class of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty in academic year 2016/2017. The number of sample was 33 participants. The technique utilized in this study was simple random technique. Data for this study were collected through questionnaire, interview, and test. The data were analysed
by using Pearson’s correlation statistics. The result indicated that 𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 was 0,73 whereas 𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 was 0,344. Thus, 𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 was higher than 𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒. It meant that there was a significant correlation between students’ self-efficacy and their writing proficiency. Then, the analysis showed that there were four factors which influenced high and low self-efficacy students. The factors were mastery experience, vicarious experiences, social persuasion and physiological and emotional states. Relating to mastery experience, high self-efficacy students have writing experiences, made an outline, problem solving in experiencing a setback, ever wrote a really great essay whereas low self-efficacy students had no or little writing experiences, outline, and problem solving. In addition, most of low self-efficacy students had not written a really great essay yet. In line with vicarious experiences, both high and low self-efficacy found model from English education department environment. Then, high and low self-efficacy students admired some figures as their social model. In regards with social persuasion, there was only one student from high and low students who had been persuaded verbally by their lecturers. In accordance with psychological and emotional states, high self-efficacy students regarded writing test and assignments as a challenge, burden and sources of inspiration whereas low self-efficacy students regarded writing test and assignments as something difficult which caused confusion, worry, panic, and fear feelings
