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The objectives of this study were to find out the most dominant students’ self- esteem, to find out any significant correlation between students’ self-esteem and their writing ability and to find out the differences between students in term of self-esteem. The participants of this study were the tenth grade students of MA AN- Najah Payabenua. The data of this study were collected by providing questionnaire sheets in the form of close ended questionnaire. The aim of the questionnaire was to find out their self-esteem score. Writing test was conducted to measure students’ writing ability. Furthermore, the researcher analyzed the correlation by using Pearson Product Moment to correlate both variables students’ self-esteem (X) and writing ability (Y). The result showed that the most dominant students’ self-esteem was the domain of self-esteem with the percentage of 55.38%. Since the correlation coefficient computation was 0.228, and the critical value in a table at significant level 0.05/5% was 0. 2441. Thus, rxy was lower than r table. In brief, there was no significant correlation between students’ self-esteem and their writing ability. In the result of paired samples test, it showed that the mean between male and female students was 0.333 with SD was 4.041, std. Error mean was 2.333, and t-obtained was 0.143, at the significant level of p< 0.05 for 2-tailed and with df 2. The result indicated that, there was no significance difference between male and female students’ self-esteem when grouped according to gender.