A Survey of EFL Writing Self-efficacy Among Indonesian University Students
Abstract
This research aims to investigate undergraduate students writing self-efficacy at a
private university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This study uses quantitative research in the form
of a survey study. The questionnaire of this study is adopted from Sun and Wang (2020) which
consists of 27 statements. The respondents are from the English Language Education
Department class of 2018 who are taking the Undergraduate Thesis course with a total of 98
respondents. The results of this study show that the most significant aspects from Use, Ideation,
Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulation, Organization, and Grammar that influences the respondent's
writing self-efficacy is the Use of English writing category, participants believe they feel
confident in Use of English Writing category in compose message in English trough on social
networks but respondents felt that they were less able to correct verb tenses in writing. This
study is expected to help students to find out how confident they are in writing English, so they
can improve the factors that influence their writing by increasing practice and it hopefully can
help future research with related issues regarding EFL undergraduate students writing self-
efficacy.