AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD-YEAR STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO ANSWER STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION OF TOEFL LIKE TEST AT THE DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER EDUCATION OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY
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ABSTRACT TOEFL is one of the standardized tests for foreign language learners used to measure students’ English proficiency. Therefore, at Bung Hatta University, a TOEFL Preparation Course is held for all students to carry out the TOEFL. The research about TOEFL had been conducted by previous researchers, while this research is related to the Structure and Written Expression of TOEFL-like test. Therefore, the present study aims to find out the third-year students’ ability to answer structure and written expression of TOEFL-like test at the Department of Primary School Teacher Education of Bung Hatta University. The population of this research was the third-year students at the Department of Primary School Teacher Education of Bung Hatta University. The number of sample was 40 students taken by cluster random sampling technique. The instrument for this research was the structure and written expression of TOEFL-like test in the form of multiple choices to collect the data. The result of this research showed that the third-year students had low ability to answer structure and written expression of TOEFL-like test. It was proved that 0 student (0%) had excellent ability, 3 students (7.5%) had good ability, 1 student (2.5%) had moderate ability, and 36 students (90%) had low ability to answer structure and written expression of TOEFL-like test. Keywords: ability, structure and written expression, TOEFL likeReferensi
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