Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Nama : Rizal
NIM : 0406 102020032
Program Studi : Pendidikan Bahasa lnggris
Judul : The Difficulties Faced By English Department Students In Answering Structure And Written Expression Section Of The Toefl Test


This study is focused on the difficulties faced by English department students in answering Structure and Written Expression section of the TOEFL test. The objectives of this study are to find out problem areas which are difficult for students and also to find out which skills are difficult for them to master. The number of sample in this study is 30 students taken from the third-year students of English department. In this case, all students must have passed Structure IV subject. The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative. To collect the data, a set of TOEFL test is used. It consists of 50 questions in Listening section,40 questions in Structure and Written Expression section, and 50 questions in Reading section. In this research, only data from Structure and Written section are taken. The result of this research shows that only 5 students who got percentage of difficulty under 50% and 25 students above 50%. It also shows that 8 problem areas of 15 problem areas are considered difficult because the average percentage difficulty is above 50%. Moreover, based on the research finding, skills needed in section II are considered difficult There are only 8 skills out of 24 skills which are in easy level. Meanwhile, the other skills are in difficult level. In this case, the writer recommends that the students need to do more practice on the TOEFL test, especially in section II.

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