Abstract :
Reading is an important component that must be mastered in learning
English. This research aims to determine the correlation between self-efficacy and
students' reading comprehension at sixth semester university of Pasir Pengaraian.
The disign method was correlational design.Where the researcher wants to know
there was any or nocorrelation between self-efficacy and students' reading
comprehension. The data were taken from questioneire test and multiple-choice
test. Test was given to 28 students at sixth semester university of Pasir
Pengaraian.
The data analyze showed that The sig. (2-tailed) value obtained was 0.031 <
0.05. It means that there is correlation between self efficacy and students? reading
comprehension but not signicantly.This can be seen from the data that selfefficacy has a high category in reading comprehension based on an average of
72.86, from the results of the questionnaire, 32% where 9 students are in the very
high category, and finally 68% of which 19 students are in the high category.
The reading test results, they were 9 students got the excellent category
(32%), 7 students got the good category, namely (25%), 8 students got the
sufficient category, namely (29%), and 7% for 2 students in the low category and
finally (7%) for 2 students in the very low category. From the data above
researchers can conclude that the student reading comprehension is goodcategory
with an average score of 71.25.The value of coefficient correlation (rxy)obtained
was 0.408, and the correlation index table falls into the category of low
correlation