AN ANALYSIS OF DIFFICULTIES FACED BY NON-ENGLISH STUDENTS IN STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION (SWE) SECTION OF TOEFL: A Survey at Faculty of Food Science and Agroindustry English Community of University of Mataram

KHOLIDI, MUH.AZHAR (2018) AN ANALYSIS OF DIFFICULTIES FACED BY NON-ENGLISH STUDENTS IN STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION (SWE) SECTION OF TOEFL: A Survey at Faculty of Food Science and Agroindustry English Community of University of Mataram. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.

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Abstract

The purposes of this study are to know 1) The non-English students’ ability in SWE Section of TOEFL; 2) Types of items in SWE section that cause the difficulties; and 3) The factors that cause the difficulties faced by non-English students. The population of this study is 105 people. The samples of this study are 21 students chosen through cluster random sampling technique. The data are collected using testing and questionnaire. The test result is converted into the TOEFL conversion table meanwhile the questionnaire is analyzed manually. From the findings, it is revealed that 1) the ability of the non-English students are in lower-intermediate: limited user with 386 as their overall scores in SWE section of TOEFL; 2) there are 18 types of items in SWE Section of TOEFL contributing to the difficulties for the non-English students which are about the use of to the use of nouns, pronouns, tenses, adjectives, adverbs, comparatives, conditional sentence, S-V agreement, adjective clause, conjunctions, noun phrase, causative, prepositions, word choices, compound sentences, embedded question, parallel structure and direct object; and 3) The factors contributing to the difficulties are because of the internal and the external factors of the non-English students. From the internal factors, the difficulties occur because of the low confidence level of the non-English students in using Grammar and their lack of educational background about Grammar. From the external factors, the difficulties occur because of their perspective about SWE Section of TOEFL such as the time allocated to SWE TOEFL test is not sufficient for them, their perspective about SWE Section of TOEFL is more difficult than other sections, and Written Expression items are more difficult to answer.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Keywords (Kata Kunci): Survey, Non-English Students, Difficulties, TOEFL, Structure and Written Expression Section.
Subjects: K Law > K Law (General)
L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Depositing User: Wiwin Kartikawati
Date Deposited: 15 Nov 2018 00:28
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2019 04:31
URI: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/9759

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