The Correlation between Law College Students' Self-Efficacy and their Writing Achievement in English Language

Abstract

There is no doubt that writing is one of the most difficult
skills for second language learners to master, in particular,
for law college students who learn English for legal
purposes. Acquiring writing skills that are highly complex is
not the only factor which makes students achieve success in
writing. There are other factors which influence students'
outcome achievement like having confidence in their own
capabilities known as self-efficacy beliefs. The construct of
self-efficacy has received increasing attention and has been
proved to have a significant positive correlation with writing
achievement. Consequently, students who have high selfefficacy in their own writing skills, are expected to
accomplish writing tasks successfully, on the other hand,
those who show low self-efficacy are expected to fail even
before they start writing.
The aims of this study are:
1.Investigating the correlation between law college students
self-efficacy and their writing achievement in English
language.
2.Identifying the difference in gender between male and
female law students as for self-efficacy and achievement.
3.Identifying Law students' performance in the self-efficacy
scale.