English Language Self-Efficacy and Oral Communication Performance of Maritime Students: Implications for Educational Interventions

This study determined the English language self-efficacy and oral communication performance of second-year Maritime Engineering students and the relationship between these variables. The research design was a quantitative descriptive correlational design involving 178 respondents selected through Yamane sampling during the academic year 2025-2026. The Questionnaire of English Self-Efficacy (QESE) adopted from Wang et al. (2019) was used to measure English language self-efficacy, and a standardized instrument was used to assess oral communication performance. The findings indicated that the respondents had very high self-efficacy of the English language and good level of oral communication performance. Furthermore, a weak but statistically significant negative relationship was found between English language self-efficacy and oral communication performance. No significant difference in oral communication performance was found when respondents were grouped by their level of English language self-efficacy.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SELF-EFFICACY, ORAL COMMUNICATION

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