AN ANALYSIS OF THE DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY NON-ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENT’S IN TOEFL TEST OF LISTENING SECTION(A Case Study at Arabic Education Department IAIN SMH Banten)
| Main Author: | PRATIWI, LIYENI |
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| Format: | Bachelors NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2017
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| Online Access: |
http://repository.uinbanten.ac.id/613/1/SKRIPSIKUU.pdf http://repository.uinbanten.ac.id/613/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This research was mainly to explore what are Non English Department Students’ (NEDS) difficulties in listening comprehension, especially in doing TOEFL Test. The writer employed a qualitative method to find out the students to do solve their problems in understanding listening skills. It is a case study involving fifteen students from Eighth semester of Arabic Department students in IAIN SMH Banten, who join a test of TOEFL preparations. To collect the data the writer used archival records, interview and questionnaire are served as the data collection method. The result of this research indicates that the students’ recapitulation score in listening section of TOEFL test was poor, by percentage 60% of students include 9 students of fifteen participants are very low understanding, and 40% of students’ include 6 students are low understanding. It means that the students are unfamiliar to do the TOEFL test. The result of the study shows that there are some points of the students’ manner to overcome their difficulties in listening section in TOEFL test are; Asking to the lecturers the unknown material, asking the unknown new vocabulary, listening English music by remembering the lyrics for new vocabulary, practicing conversation by English language, opening the dictionary before doing the test, giving motivation with friends, studying hard and improving the vocabulary mastery.