Musyarrafah, Musyarrafah (2011) The students’ mastery of TOEFL reading comprehension at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty of ‘Antasari’ State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin on the academic year 2009/2010. Skripsi, Tarbiyah dan Keguruan.

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Musyarrafah, 2011. The students’ mastery of TOEFL reading comprehension at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty of ‘Antasari’ State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin on the academic year 2009/2010. Thesis, English Department. Tarbiyah Faculty. Advisor: (1) Dra. Hj. Wardah Hayati, M.A, (2) Nani Hizriani, M.A. The TOEFL is test of English as foreign language. TOEFL examines someone’s ability in mastering English; the abilities are listening comprehension, structure and written expression, reading comprehension and writing. The test evaluates the potential success of an individual to use and understand standard American English at college or university level. Almost one million students from 180 countries register to take the TOEFL every year at 1,275 test centers in the United States and their home countries. English Department as a major at Islamic education Faculty also requires undergraduate to take TOEFL for fulfillment and give certain standard score of the requirement to obtain the degree of Islamic Education Faculty. Then sixth semester students who have taken reading A, reading B, and reading C are expected to be ready to face the test. This research is supposed to know the students’ mastery of TOEFL reading comprehension at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty of ‘Antasari’ State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin on the academic year 2009/2010 and to know the types of questions in TOEFL reading comprehension are difficult for students to understand. Based on the problems in this research, the writer wants to know how the students’ mastery of TOEFL reading comprehension at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty of ‘Antasari’ State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin on the academic year 2009/2010 is and to know what the types of questions in TOEFL reading comprehension are difficult for students to understand are. The writer uses subject and object in this research. The subject of this research is 50 sixth semester students at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty of ‘Antasari’ State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin on the academic year 2009/2010 and the object is the students’ mastery of TOEFL reading comprehension at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty of ‘Antasari’ State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin on the academic year 2009/2010. The data of this research are collected through written tes, interview, documentary and observation. All of the collected data are processed through editing, coding, and tabulating. The data are analyzed by descriptive quantitative and concluded inductively. All the data shows that the students’ mastery of TOEFL reading comprehension at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty of ‘Antasari’ State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin on the academic year 2009/2010 and had taken subject or course reading A, reading B, and reading C in last sixth semester is classified in the good category with the mean score 425.2. The types of questions in TOEFL reading comprehension are difficult for students to understand according to difficult index each questions are in previewing, scanning for the detailed information, making inference, using context for vocabulary and in making conclusion.

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