Efl Students’ Self-efficacy In Writing: A Small-scale Survey At An Indonesian Secondary School

Abstract

Writing is an important skill for Indonesian students learning English as a foreign language, but many still face problems such as low confidence, anxiety, and difficulties with grammar and organization. This study aims to find out the level of students’ self-efficacy in English writing and to give insights for teachers to improve their teaching. The research used a quantitative descriptive method with a total population sampling of 104 students from a private high school in Yogyakarta. Data were collected through the English Writing Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, adapted from Sun & Wang (2020), and analyzed using SPSS. There are 27 items with five dimensions. The results showed that students felt most confident in using English for practical writing tasks (M=5.68). Ideation (M=5.647) refers to their ability to organize, develop, and elaborate ideas for a writing task. Following this, organization of students shows their ability to organize ideas properly and arrange paragraphs coherently in writing formats (M=5.609), self-efficacy for Self-Regulation (SE-SRL) indicates that students have high-level confidence in their writing process (M= 5.473), while grammar received (M=3.41) showing more challenges and structural rules, mostly fear of making mistakes, lead to them losing confidence in their ability to use English correctly. They require more targeted grammar support to improve both accuracy and belief in writing.